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Superman

July 7, 2002: Waid Talks “Superman: Birthright”

DC Comics have revealed a number of tidbits about some up-coming projects at this year's Wizard World Chicago Con. Amongst those projects is a year-long Superman event by Mark Waid. Newsarama caught up with Mark Waid to ask him all about it. Here's an excerpt from that interview...

Writer Mark Waid has never made any bones about this love for Superman, and now after years as a comic book editor, then freelance writer, then creator-owned publisher, then staff writer and now again a freelance writer, he'll get a year to express his affection on paper in the tentatively titled Superman: Birthright, as 12-issue maxi-series drawn by Leinil Francis Yu that Waid calls a new "very Siegel-and-Shuster-friendly look at the origins of the Superman."

"It's a very conscious attempt to assemble in one linear series or volume the 'Legend of the Man of Steel', from Krypton through his first big, big adventure, the one that makes him known to everyone on Earth," Waid explained to Newsarama, "the kind of thing you can hand kids from Baltimore to Botswana from now on when they ask who Superman is."

"That said - and readers will just have to trust me on this until some of Leinil's sketches begin appearing - this isn't a 'retro' project in any way, shape or form. As will become clear in the months to come, as paradoxical as this sounds right now, we're looking forward, not back."

By "very Siegel-and-Shuster-friendly", Waid means he's planning to honor the original spirit of the Superman, "...hewing very closely to the basic character concepts as envisioned by Superman's creators - a champion of the weak and oppressed, a social crusader - and, without ever taking away from him that he's the best of the good guys, maybe a little less of a boy scout."

Read the complete report at the Newsarama website.



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