2009 Comic Book News Archives

Secret Origin

July 2, 2009: Dan DiDio Talks "Superman: Secret Origin"

Newsarama.com's "20 Answers and 1 Question" feature with Dan DiDio has been updated once again. DiDio talks about a range of topics, including "Blackest Night" and "Justice League: Cry For Justice", and also had this to say regarding "Superman: Secret Origin"...

    With Superman: Secret Origin coming up, a reader asked how often do you feel a character's origin needs to be re-told or tweaked, and what drives that decision? Secret Origin is the third retelling in 20 years, Batman's has been retold a handful of times to include and remove and include Joe Chill...

    DD: In this particular case, there was a real sense of some of the status quo changing following Infinite Crisis and a feeling of some things changing when Geoff and Richard Donner stepped on board - you got the sense that there were slight changes in the past of Superman's world. The re-introduction of the Legion of Super-Heroes that we're still seeing in Legion of 3 Worlds is another tweak. So in that case we felt that it was time to revisit that and to embrace the sensibilities of that, not only because there were slight changes and I felt that they made for great story, but it also re-introduces Superman back into the Legion of Super-Heroes lore, which I think will make everybody very excited, but it was also setting up a lot of the parameters of the world of Krypton and who Superman is, and will play out in the Superman story in the coming year or so.

    The interesting part of this story for me is that when we came up with the changes after Infinite Crisis and launched Geoff's run on Superman, there were a lot of people asking for Superman's origin, and one of the reasons why we pushed this through was that people asked for it early on.

You can read the complete interview at Newsarama.com.



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