What works well in a comic doesn’t automatically work well in a movie.

Absolutely.

But Doomsday’s first appearance is already a perfect movie storyboard.

The creative team knew they were introducing Superman’s greatest foe, and they knew it was going to become a movie, someday.

That scene would work in a movie. It begs to be done larger than life on a huge screen.

DC needs to learn to trust their source material.