2012 Comic Book News Archives

January 26, 2012: Jurgens and Giffen Get Personal with Superman

Superman #7 ComicBookResources.com caught up with the creative team of Dan Jurgens and Keith Giffen to talk about their run on "Superman" starting with issue #7. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    DC editor Matt Idleson recently announced there is going to be a big "Superman"/"Superboy"/"Supergirl" event this summer. As the flagship title, are you guys sort of leading the charge and setting the pace for the event?

    Jurgens: I think so, yeah.

    Giffen: I would like to think so, yeah!

    Jurgens: Keith would like to think so, I think so! [Laughter] The idea is, and again, this gets back to where we were originally in the conversation, that yes, this is a new DC Universe and we have a somewhat re-imagined Superman, Superboy and Supergirl. So, what are their connections, if any? Or is it going to be a situation where the connection is so distant there really isn't one? How do they interact with each other? What we're looking to build here, along with the appropriate creative teams from those two books of course, is we want to set up what exactly are those relationships, why these three characters see each other the way they do. I think there's something there that's very compelling and interesting because it simply isn't going to be what it was a few years ago.

    Giffen: With any bit of luck! I have to point out right up top here that I am not the hugest fan of the boy/girl, lad/lass, dog/chimp rule of superheroes wherein you take a character and then just introduce dozens and dozens of different variants. So one of the things I would hope with this crossover, what we can do is, instead of making these characters seem more similar to each other because they all wear the S, is make them as dissimilar to each other as humanly possible so each character is still a unique character in of itself and not just part of a bigger family of like characters. That's always driven me crazy.

Read the complete interview at the CBR website.



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