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Superman #681

November 2, 2008: Geoff Johns Talks About "New Krypton" and Superman's Future

IGN.com has posted a lengthy interview with writer Geoff Johns, discussing with him the details of his recent "Brainiac" story and the current "New Krypton" story crossing over between "Action Comics", "Superman" and "Supergirl". Here's a portion of the interview...

    Q: It's obvious from the New Krypton special that these Kryptonians might have a tough time adjusting to life on Earth, and maybe even have some feelings of entitlement. Might we see any Zod sympathizers in this group?

    Johns: You have to remember back to the beginning of Action Comics #866, the first part of "Brainiac," there were hundreds of Zod's soldiers under his command that were fighting against Brainiac. And Zod at that point was one of the most respected members of Kryptonian society. So you have a lot of loyalists who hear things afterward about the planet blowing up, and the word is that Zod led a revolt against the council, tried to help, and then was imprisoned and banished to the Phantom Zone. Then the planet blew up. Boom. It makes Zod look like he was right. Maybe he was.

    In "Last Son", we saw Zod say he was going to save this world. He wanted to save Krypton. And Superman asked, "Well, how? You went in there and slaughtered the council. How would you have saved the planet? My father wanted us to all work together, and knew that was the only way to do it. And you resorted to violence as the only solution." And Zod doesn't have an answer to that, but in his mind, he would have figured it out if he just got the council out of his way. So a lot of these Zod loyalists and soldiers are going to stay loyal to him, as opposed to some son of a scientist that they never really knew. And they're going to hear how their commander in chief was banished to this horrible, treacherous place.

Read the complete "Geoff Johns Marathon" interview at IGN.com.

Thanks to Tim Gordon for bringing this to our attention.



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