2008 Comic Book News Archives

August 13, 2008: "New Krypton" 3-Part Alex Ross Cover Artwork Revealed

Newsararama has received the first look at the complete artwork by Alex Ross that will make up the three comic book covers of "Superman #681", "Action Comics #871", and "Supergirl #35" for parts 2-4 of the "New Krypton" saga.

Kryptonians

    "Change is what New Krypton is all about. One-hundred-thousand more Kryptonians. He's no longer the last son of Krypton," Geoff Johns said. "Obviously it's going to affect his life, especially when they all say, 'Hey! We're on New Krypton! Earth is New Krypton!' That's going to cause some problems.

    For Superman and Supergirl, the prospect of having so many people like them on Earth may seem like a good thing, but the team said it's not going to be that easy.

    "You've got 100,000 people with the powers of Superman," Superman Editor Matt Idelson said, "but they weren't raised the way he was. They don't have human values. They don't know what's important to us. And it's going to get messy."

    "And there's hundreds of Zod's soldiers in there from when Brainiac attacked Kandor. It's not like, 'Hey! Cool! We're back! Alright!,'" Johns said.

Check out a larger version of the artwork and a complete article on "New Krypton" at Newsarama.com.

Thanks to Eli Gutierrez for the lead on this story.



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