2011 Comic Book News Archives

October 11, 2011: Green and Johnson Talk "Supergirl"

Supergirl #2 ComicBookResources.com caught up with "Supergirl" writers Michael Green and Mike Johnson to get their thoughts on the relaunch of the Maid of Might and what we can expect from up-coming issues. Here's a portion of the interview...

    The first issue is a bit light on plot but does delve into Kara's inner monologue and who Kara is. In order to get new readers onboard, rather than setting up a big overarching story right away, did you want to pace the first issue so they got to know the character first?

    Green: Yeah, we're definitely thinking long game with her and we wanted to make sure that people were first introduced to the perspective with Supergirl's point of view. It's really the most important and the most fun part of it because it's through her eyes we're seeing this crazy world we live in. We wanted to make sure we had room to understand it. Plus, there's nothing wrong with letting Mahmud draw and give him some space to show off, too, because we really, really enjoy looking at his work!

    Johnson: The plot is going to come. It's more important that we get into that plot once we already have gotten readers into Kara's POV and sympathizing with her -- and then we get into the juicy plot stuff, which is going to unfold over the opening issues. Also, the fact we're not dumping a bunch of plot right now mirrors Kara's own experience -- she doesn't have all the answers. We're going to explore with the readers; the readers are going to experience it as she does, where she finds out new things and she gets some answers but more questions are raised.

    Green: We really wanted to get into the mystery of that, and for us, plot without character is just mechanics. It's much more important for us to get hooked into who she is, then exactly what is happening to her. That will come and we have a bunch of ideas and we're really excited about it. We just had to be a little bit patient with ourselves in terms of complication.

Read the complete interview at ComicBookResources.com.



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