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July 7, 2013: Mark Waid Talks About "Man of Steel" Ending

While Mark Waid didn't hate "Man of Steel", he wasn't exactly pleased with how it ended, and Ed Gross from Voices From Krypton caught up with Mark to talk in more detail about his thoughts on the film.

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MARK WAID: Right, but the difference is that in the first Star Trek movie, Chris Pine showed parts of himself that were Shatner-esque. I think that seems to be the overall feeling from a lot of people, that this is the first step. But nobody knew it was going to be a trilogy going in!

VOICES FROM KRYPTON: No, I don't view it as a trilogy, I just view it as the first time this dude has put on the costume -

MARK WAID: Right, but if I wanted to see Boy of Steel I would have seen Boy of Steel - and that slips into the category of personal preference rather than intelligent critique. It's more just to the storyteller. I understand that you want growth and development and stuff, but I just want a little more pay off to that. It reminds me very much of the thing you loathe hearing from freelancers and writers when you're a publisher or editor, because I get this a lot - every publisher and every editor gets it - you get someone turning in a first issue and it's kind of there, but nothing big has happened or there's something missing, and the answer is always, "Wait till you get to issue three." Oh, shut up! "We have to set the stage!" Stop setting the stage and get on with the play. That's my kneejerk reaction to the point of, well he's just learning. But that's not what it was sold as, that's not what we thought we were getting. We thought we were getting a Superman movie, and we got a Superman in training movie, and maybe that's part of my disappointment, too; maybe my expectations were forwarded that way, but if that's the case I don't think I'm alone.

Read the complete interview with Mark Waid at VoicesFromKrypton.net.