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Here are Eddie Berganza's answers to questions fans put to him in April 2002:
Eddie's Answers
April 2002
Van Banoovong (vbanoovong@yahoo.com) asks:Will Clark and Lois ever have a baby?
Eddie: Check out THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #603-605 for a Superbaby. But for Lois and Clark, it will be a much longer wait. They just got married in DCU time, and their real busy.
Martin Alejandro Salinas (mas_el@yahoo.com) asks:
Will we see which is the real Krypton before Jeph Loeb leaves the "Superman" title?
Eddie: No, but as soon as he's gone, it's all revealed.
Actually, Jeph had a lot of input into our "RETURN TO KRYPTON 2". I think it was his idea to begin with, but Geoff Johns, Joe Kelly, Joe Casey and Mark Schultz are doing a real cool job with the follow up. It also has some of the best art for one of our arcs with Pascual Ferry doing SUPERMAN and ACTION, Duncan Rouleau returns to AOS, and new guy Karl Kerschl (from the Iceman mini) doing the action packed portion in MAN OF STEEL. It introduces new Krypton baddie Xon-Ur, the man with the power of the Red Sun. It'll be coming soon this July!
Michael Cassano (ssnmc@yahoo.com) asks:
Now that the "Superboy" series is over, do you have any plans for the character? I know you're a big fan of his. Would you be interested in initiating a new Superboy series, mini-series, or maxi-series? What will his role be now in the Super-books?
Eddie: After his 100th issue he will be put in a place very important to the Super-books, and he's still a part of Young Justice too. There's still a lot for the Kid to do--we'll see what the future brings.
Anthony Borrelli (krypto6161@aol.com) asks:
I was wondering if you had any more plans for the Eradicator. Any chance he will return to his old look?
Eddie: Keep an eye out for the finale to "Return to Krypton 2". And what version of the Eradicator do you guys want to see?
Neal Bailey (baileyn@cc.wwu.edu) states:
All around me, fans seem to be complaining about the continuity issue with Superman of late, with the Lois' mother thing, with Lex knowing Clark's identity and not acting on it for three months, and other items, like Natasha being okay one issue, gone the next. Will you be drawing a "line in the sand", so to speak, one way or another, with regards to continuity? In essence, is Superman going to become a series of titles working together towards a common storyline, or seperate entities working towards their own creative goals? I know you have responded to this in the past, and noted that you will link them up when necessary, and take them apart again when you have other things to explore. I just feel, of late especially, that this is not working very well. The stories are still great, but the overlaps are annoying. Can you please address this?
While Philipp Gygli (philipp.gygli@balcab.ch) similarly states:
Hi, I'm a reader from Switzerland, Europe, and I must say, while all four Superman books are full of interesting ideas, they seem scattered all about and not really well executed. In my opinion, it isn't nearly as coherent anymore as it was at the beginning of the revamp of Loeb & Co. That way, the ideas may seem nifty, but on the other hand wasted, because they don't have any impact on me. Isn't it possible to tie the storylines up in a better way? I know many asked for separate storylines, and even the Shield Numbers have disappeared. But the link is still there anyway. Why not accentuate it?
Eddie: The unfortunate thing about that was that while all the books were coming out monthly, the time frame in Superman's life varied. In two of the books, Mom saw the kiss with Superman, but in the others it would not have occured yet. Just look at when the hair changed. It was impossible to move subplots forward when they would not have been time for them to in a particular title. For instance , all that was going on in MOS during "Gangs of Metropilis" was mostly one day. Material in ACTION and AOS were other days. Trust me, if you read the different parts of a particular title alone, and then move to the next, it makes better sense. It was nutty and we'll probably be watching how we can improve on that.
Ed McGarry (ed_mcgarry@hotmail.com) asks:
What are the chances of readers seeing characters (or at least one supporting character) with a disability in upcoming story-lines?
Eddie: We're still working on what's coming up, and we'll add this to the list. Any other requests?
Martin Alejandro Salinas (mas_el@yahoo.com) asks:
When the new creative teams came to the Super Books, Jeph and Joe (Kelly) said in "Wizard" that their objective was to put Superman in the top ten within two years. That never happened. Do you see this as a failure on their behalf?
Eddie: Honestly, Superman, regardless of his stature as an American icon, is a tough sell. People have such preconceived notions about what he is that they won't pick up the books based on that alone. Also there's a slow reaction time for people's buying habits to change. We've all heard complaints about how certain books are awful, and yet you see that their sales aren't affected by it. I think the guys have consistently produced some of the best stuff for an ongoing franchise that works in the way that the Superbooks do.
Mind you, that doesn't mean any of us have given up on that top ten... we're still working on it.
Doug Chambers (dmwc@charter.net) asks:
A few years back we were introduced to Keith, the child who Perry & Alice White adopted. He appeared a few times after the adoption, but hasn't appeared in the books in quite a while now. Any chance we will be seeing Keith or Alice White anytime soon in the Super-books?
Eddie: It might happen sometime this September. You really haven't seen that much of Alice really, either.
Thanks Eddie!
Eddie: Always Super! Keeping 'em coming.
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