2012 Comic Book News Archives

September 11, 2012: Big Plans for Superman Family Comic Books

Superboy #0 "Superboy" writer Tom DeFalco has told ComicBookResources.com that he and his fellow writers have big plans for the Superman-family of comic book titles.

    The #0 issues are origin stories. As we've seen a lot of Superboy's origins already, how did you approach this issue?

    Well, to be honest, I've been spending a lot of time talking with my associates Scott Lobdell and Mike Johnson, West Coast Mike. I guess it's no secret that we've decided we want the Superman family books to outsell the Bat books and the Spider books and the X-books and every other bunch of books! [Laughs] So we've been spending months putting out a master plan to help us to the top of the list! And I'm only sharing that with you and all of your readers!

    It's a conspiracy!

    Forget the DC Universe, we want to take over the entire comics universe! Forget all those other titles out there -- except for "Legion Lost" and "Nightwing" -- the Super-family books are going to become the number one titles! For a month you're going to have to buy "Superman," "Superboy," "Supergirl" and "Action Comics." And then whatever you have leftover you buy the other stuff! [Laughs]

    We have constructed a basic scenario, which will play out over the next couple of months. In "Superboy" #0, we introduce a number of things that preceded Superboy's origin, that are intimately connected to Superboy's origin and there's a "Where's Waldo" moment in there that I think a lot of readers will miss the first time they read this book. If they look carefully they're going to say, "What the heck is this person doing here?" That'll play out over the next bunch of months, as will everything.

    "Superboy" #0 is a complete done-in-one; if you've never read any other issues of "Superboy," you can read this, it will explain to you everything you need to know and who Superboy is and what you need to follow going forward. If you've read all the origin stuff, you will see certain parallels that will be familiar to you, you will get new insights as to what was really going on in those things. In the early origin of Superboy, Caitlin was running one agenda. Hers wasn't the only one being run! We're going to realize there are or were strategies within strategies being played.

Read the complete interview at the CBR website.



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