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August 4, 2002: Seagle Talks Superman at San Diego Comic Con

The guys at Comic Book Resources have done a great job in covering the events at this year's San Diego Comic Con. Here's an interesting excerpt from comments made by up-coming "Superman" comic scribe Steven Seagle on day two at the Con...

"It's also very interesting that while some writers might try to downplay the fact that Superman is the icon of the comic book world, Seagle openly embraces that fact when writing the character. "He is the guy- the opening of Scott and my first issue shows why he is called Superman. I mean, stuff happens to him that if it happened to anyone else, they would be dead and I think that's the thing I want to bring to the book as much as possible. When you see something happen to him, I think it's critical that you think that if that happened to Green Lantern for example, his neck would have snapped or if that was Martian Manhunter, he would have died at that moment, and that's the stuff I want for Superman- stuff that only he can grapple with. That's not saying I'm going to be a genius with 'oh, here's the perfect villain' but in terms of thinking physically, what can he do that no one else can do. But the other side of that is making sure that is making sure that the people around him are aware that what they've just seen is unbelievable, y'know, and it's that kind of vibe that I'm going for. No slight to Joe Kelly and all of thm, but you're not going to see Lois & Clark having crumpets in bed in my comic. I think he is both of those things, but I'm going to illuminate the one that is God-like while Joe can illuminate the one that is man-like."

Read the complete report at the CBR website.



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