2008 Comic Book News Archives

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October 23, 2008: Geoff Johns on Superman's Challenge in "New Krypton"

Newsarama.com sat down with writer Geoff Johns to talk to him about the challenges Superman will face in the "New Krypton" comic book saga. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    Q: By the end of Action Comics #870, he's lost part of what made him so aware of what this world provides -- his father. As a storyteller, why does this moment of his death fit with this story you're telling now?

    GJ: Superman's trapped, Clark Kent's trapped, between his Kryptonian roots and his human roots. He's really a man of both worlds. He grew up believing he was human and then discovered he had been sent to our world. So just as he's gotten this amazing, unbelievable touchstone to a planet that was long dead, a world he never thought he'd see again, and even his family -- I mean, literally his family, with his uncle and aunt and his cousin -- just as he receives the greatest gift that he could ever dream of, he loses one of the most important people in his life, Jonathan Kent.

    And I have to say that if anybody's going to illustrate the death of Pa Kent, that huge, iconic moment, Gary Frank should do it. I think he's undeniably one of the greatest Superman artists of all time already.

Read the complete interview at the Newsarama website.

"Superman: New Krypton Special" is available in comic shops now.



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