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January 26, 2006: Kurt Busiek Talks About His Ideas for Superman

Newsarama has published an interview with Kurt Busiek about where he plans on taking the "Superman" comic book title, and just how he managed to land the job. Here's part of the interview...

    "I had a great time doing Superman: Secret Identity, and it gave me a chance to think about the character from the inside out, without all the usual trappings, so I got the beginnings of a feel for him there. And then I got a couple of opportunities that didn't go anywhere, but they got me thinking more.

    "First, Alex Ross asked me if I'd be interested in doing a Superman project with him and Ron Garney, and I told him I had no ideas whatsoever, then called back about two hours later to say I'd figured out some ideas - enough stuff for a 12-issue project had all just fallen into my head while I should have been thinking about other things.

    "That project didn't happen, but a year or so later, Dan DiDio asked me if I'd be interested in writing a Superman run, and I wound up coming up with a whole bunch of new, unrelated ideas that I'd have enjoyed writing. And then that didn't happen. And a few months later, I read something another writer said about Superman on the Internet, and I disagreed with it - and just like that, an idea for what sounded to me like the coolest Superman story that should have happened in the Sixties but never did popped into my head, and I figured out how to do it for the present day. So there I was, I had three different sets of ideas, any one of which I'd have fun writing.

    "And then Carlos called. And I realized I could use all three, plus others. So as it stands, my second and third issues with Carlos are the opening gambit of the 12-issue thing I came up with for the Alex and Ron thing, and then the next two issues are a story I originally planned for JLA, and then there's some repercussions from those, and then the next big arc is one I came up with after Dan first talked to me about doing a Superman project, and the following year I can do the 'Coolest story that shoulda got done but didn't, and...' And on and on...

Read the whole interview at the Newsarama.com website.



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