2002 Comic Book News Archives
November 14, 2002: Kurt Busiek Talks Superman
Comicon's "Pulse" website caught up with comic writer Kurt Busiek to talk about his up-coming 4-issue miniseries "Superman: Secret Identity". Here's an excerpt from the interview...In an ordinary world what happens if you have the same name and live in a place similar to one of comics greatest heroes, but don't have all the fame, powers, or other special stuff that goes with it? What happens if you're just a Clark Kent? What happens if after a life of the ordinary and a life or ridicule and jeers -- what happens if after all that, one day you discover you have the powers, too? What happens when a normal Clark Kent discovers he could be a Superman? That's the theory behind Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen's newest prestige DC series, Superman: Secret Identity.
Q: What is Superman: Secret Identity?
KURT BUSIEK: SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY is a 4-issue, 48-page-per-issue series about a guy named Clark Kent. Not the Clark Kent we see every issue in the Superman comics, but a guy whose parents named him Clark Kent, who looks rather like the Clark from the comics, and who grew up in a small town in Kansas. Naturally, this doomed him to a life of lame jokes about secretly being Superman, being set up on blind dates with girls named Lois, and in generally being unable to escape the constant references to the big guy from Krypton.
While he's still in high school, however, he discovers something else: He has the powers, too. He doesn't know how, he doesn't know why -- but he has all the powers that go with the famous name.
The series is about him dealing with life and with his 'secret identity.' On one level, it's an adventure story, since his powers put him in a position to help people and make him a target for those who'd like to control him, but that's mostly just the context for the real story, which is about how he goes through life, dealing with the same kind of questions, conflicts and concerns that anyone else does. The powers make those questions more dramatic, louder, more visual -- but they're still the same kind of thing we all have to cope with. Everybody's got a secret self, an inner identity that's not quite the same as the outer face (or faces) they show to the world. Our Clark's is just more of a secret than most. We may not have to deal with mysterious government hit squads or questions of whether we're actually human, but we have to deal with questions of what we'll do with our lives, where our values lie, questions about romance, about family, about parenthood ... and it's these questions that drive Clark through the adventure and fantasy.
SECRET IDENTITY looks in on Clark at four different points in his life -- each one showcasing different concerns, and combining the super-adventure stuff with the human questions underneath. Hopefully, the result is a very human story about a superhuman. At the very least, it's gorgeously drawn by Stuart Immonen, who's doing full art for the project, computer-coloring his own pencils. It's a very different look, both for Stuart and for superhero comics, and it works beautifully.
Read the complete interview the The Pulse website.
2002 Comic News
Listed below are all the Comic News items archived for 2002.- January 3, 2002: Wizard Fan Awards Nominees
- January 8, 2002: New Look for Superman Books
- January 8, 2002: Casey Talks “Adventures of Superman”
- January 11, 2002: Alex Ross Interview
- January 13, 2002: John Buscema Dies
- January 16, 2002: Superman & Savage Dragon
- January 17, 2002: DC Comics Launches 9-11 Mini-Site
- January 18, 2002: Superman Homepage in “Superman #178”
- January 22, 2002: Dan Slott Talks Justice League Adventures
- January 26, 2002: Kurt Schaffenberger Dies
- January 26, 2002: “First Time” for DC Characters
- February 5, 2002: Jeph Loeb Talks Superman - The Secret Revealed
- February 5, 2002: Derec Aucoin Joins Superman Team - Update
- February 7, 2002: New DC Comics President
- February 23, 2002: Paul Levitz Talks “Smallville” Comic Book
- February 26, 2002: Wagner Talks DC Project
- March 5, 2002: Superboy Cancelled!
- March 8, 2002: DC Comics Sues Wella Corp.
- March 9, 2002: New Monthly Superman/Batman Comic!!!
- March 12, 2002: Comics and the Internet
- March 13, 2002: MAD Magazine “Smallville” Issue
- March 14, 2002: Mark Schultz Talks Superman
- March 24, 2002: Berganza Talks Smallville Comic Stories
- April 4, 2002: Bogdanove talks “Superman/Aliens II: GodWar”
- April 11, 2002: SCI FI Joins Free Comic Day
- April 14, 2002: JLA to go Bi-Weekly in August
- April 17, 2002: Daily Planet Crew in Marvel Comic
- April 20, 2002: Mark Millar Talks Superman
- April 21, 2002: DC Comics at WonderCon
- May 9, 2002: The JLA's Obsidian Age
- May 10, 2002: The Physics Behind Comic Books
- May 20, 2002: Superman Comics = Real Life
- May 27, 2002: “Sorry!” Says Superman Editor Eddie Berganza
- May 28, 2002: New Superman Comics Creative Team
- June 7, 2002: Doug Hazlewood Interview and Gallery
- June 16, 2002: “Smallville: The Comic”
- June 19, 2002: Superman's “Ending Battle” in September
- June 20, 2002: Steve Seagle Talks Superman
- July 6, 2002: Superman's “Day of Doom”
- July 7, 2002: Waid Talks “Superman: Birthright”
- July 7, 2002: Superman's Costume Change
- July 7, 2002: No More Superman Comics in Brazil
- July 22, 2002: San Diego Comic Con 2002 Information
- August 4, 2002: Seagle Talks Superman at San Diego Comic Con
- August 8, 2002: Nicolas Cage Selling His Comic Collection!
- August 15, 2002: JLA With Alex Ross and Paul Dini
- September 11, 2002: Superman Comics Back in Brazil
- September 15, 2002: Tom Derenick Draws Superman
- September 19, 2002: Superman 10 Cent Adventure
- September 22, 2002: Man of Steel Cancelled!
- September 22, 2002: Forbes Rates Richest Fictional Characters
- September 25, 2002: Mark Waid Sets the Record Straight
- September 29, 2002: 12-Part “Superman: Metropolis” Series
- October 14, 2002: Nicolas Cage Sells Comic Books for US$1.6 Million
- October 15, 2002: Duncan Rouleau Interview
- November 4, 2002: Berganza Talks Superman in 2003
- November 12, 2002: DC Comics for 2003
- November 14, 2002: Kurt Busiek Talks Superman
- November 15, 2002: Pantheon Books to Publish Alex Ross Book
- November 26, 2002: Nicolas Cage To Sell More Comics
- November 26, 2002: Tom Palmer Talks “Smallville” Comic Books
- November 27, 2002: Superman Comics Return to Brazil
- December 1, 2002: Casey Talks “Adventures of Superman”
- December 4, 2002: Kelly Talks “Action Comics” #800
- December 5, 2002: Joe Kelly Talks New JLA Lineup
- December 11, 2002: Steve Gerber Talks “Superman: Last Stand on Earth”
- December 19, 2002: Supergirl Cancelled!
- December 21, 2002: Eddie Berganza Promoted to Group Editor!
- December 27, 2002: Cavalieri Talks “Superman: Secret Identity”
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