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July 28, 2003: Jim Lee and Brian Azzarello on Superman

Wizard Universe recently conducted an interview with Jim Lee who admitted that he and Brian Azzarello will be teaming up for a stint on "Superman" starting in March 2004. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

The funny thing is, we did commit to doing more Batman, we still are going to do more Batman, that's something I talk about all the time. I've always wanted to work with Brian Azzarello, and it originally started out as a sort of miniseries that wouldn't necessarily focus on Superman. But then it evolved like, 'Hey, if we're doing a project that involves Superman, why are we skirting around the bush? Let's do Superman.' And I think there might have been some feeling that Brian wouldn't be receptive to doing Superman, that we'd have to go from the angle of a villain or some other character to do a Superman project. But he was gung-ho for doing Superman. So it became a run on Superman. And I always feel like if you're going to do a run, you should do at least six, nine issues. And it just worked out for my schedule that it would be easier to do these 12 with Brian, rather than doing a mini with Brian and then possibly doing a run on the regular title down the line. Bottom line, I wanted to do a long run on Superman in the future, and then I had this other project with Brian that involved Superman, so why do six issues of this with Brian and then come back and do 12 more issues of Superman? Because when you say "in the future," this would probably be after Batman, so you're talking about two or three years later. It just made more sense for me to consolidate and say, Brian, let's do Superman, let's do 12 issues, and let's do it now. This is a whole different kind of beast because it's sort of an overhaul of the whole Superman line, so there are a lot more moving parts, a lot more people involved, so it's a little more chaotic. But fun chaotic! It's exciting. You get a sense that big things are going to come out of it.

Read the complete interview at the Wizard Universe website.

Newsarama also reports that Greg Rucka (Detective Comics, Wolverine, Queen & Country) and Chuck Austen (Uncanny X-Men, Captain America) will be assigned to two of Superman's other titles. Other creators rumored to be involved with various Superman titles in 2004 are writers Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, and Bill Willingham, and artists Art Adams, Matthew Clark, and Adam Kubert.



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