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January 26, 2012: Green and Johnson Discuss Supergirl Comics

Supergirl #8 Newsarama spoke with "Supergirl" writers Michael Green and Mike Johnson to find out more about why George Pérez is drawing issue #8, what they've been trying to accomplish with their first five issues of "Supergirl", and what readers can expect in 2012 from the series. Here's a portion of the interview...

    Newsarama: In issue #5, Supergirl finds out that it's all true. Krypton's really gone. How important was this moment for the title? It's a real turning point, isn't it?

    Mike Johnson: Yeah, I think issue #5 is the place where we wanted to start giving the fans some answers. We always answer a question with another question, but hopefully fans are getting enough clues now that some things are starting to get resolved.

    Of course, the biggest thing is, as you said, now she knows for sure that Krypton's gone. She knows what has happened to her family. And it has really set the table for the rest of the book.

    Michael Green: For us, her finding out what happened back home, and that "home" is gone, is probably the most foundational part of her back-story. If Superman's never-ending story is, "what is my place in this world," because he got to grow up here and be an out-of-place child here, her story is so disruptive that her story becomes, "what happened to my world? Where did those people I love go?"

    We wanted to make sure we gave as much attention to those emotions as possible, and really make that the first big piece of her story, finding out that it's all gone and dealing with it. It's real loss. It's everyone know you know and love is no more. There's nothing to do about except honor their memory by staying a good person in the face of it.

Check out the entire interview at Newsarama.com.



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