2011 Comic Book News Archives

December 6, 2011: Sholly Fisch Talks "Action Comics" Back-Up Stories

Action Comics #4 Writer Sholly Fisch was hand-picked by Grant Morrison to write back-up stories which will be a regular feature in issues of "Action Comics" starting with issue #4. ComicBookResources.com caught up with Fisch to ask him about these back-up stories and how the job came about. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    I should say that the first backup story is about Steel, but not all of them will be. We're taking sort of an unusual approach to the backups, and intertwining them with Grant's lead stories. Each backup spins off of something in the lead story -- sometimes a pivotal, central event, and sometimes something that happens almost in passing -- and helps to flesh out readers' understanding of Superman, the people around him, and what he means to the world.

    In #4, for example, we see the beginning of a fight between Steel and Metallo -- or more precisely, 'Metal-Zero' -- in Grant's lead story before the focus turns back to Superman. We see the rest of that fight in the backup, and along the way, we learn a little more about Steel, his motivation, and his personality.

    After #4, the scene will shift to a pair of backup stories set years ago in Smallville. In #5, we'll get a glimpse of Jonathan and Martha Kent's lives before Kal-El arrived and they became "Ma" and "Pa." "Action Comics" #6 will show us Clark's last day in Smallville. Then #7 will jump forward again to Steel as we find out what's been happening on the ground while Superman's been busy, um... elsewhere. Finally, the backups will skip a month while Grant wraps up the current story arc in a full-length story in #8. And then, we'll start all over with a new bunch of backups in #9.

Read the entire interview at the CBR website.



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