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World of New Krypton #1

February 25, 2009: Rucka & Robinson Talk "Superman: World of New Krypton"

Newsarama.com has posted an interview with writers Greg Rucka and James Robinson where they discuss the up-coming "Superman: World of New Krypton" miniseries. Here's a portion of the interview...

    NRAMA: We've seen a little bit of where Superman's mind is at the end of "New Krypton," where he reaffirms his pledge to Pa to help as many people as he can, but what's the real kick to get him to decide to split his time between two worlds?

    JR: Well, we don't want to give stuff away, but there are, what we believe, compelling reasons why he's forced to become a Kryptonian - there are reasons for that that make sense.

    GR: Well, to be fair, there are 100,000 compelling reasons why he feels the need to move. I can name one that's chief among them - Zod. But now, there are 99,999 who can do pretty much what Zod can do, which is what Superman can do.

    NRAMA: Are you saying that New Krypton is a planet of 100,000 Zods?

    GR: See, this is something that's always bugs me - people say about Superman that anyone who had those powers isn't going to be that good. Maybe that's true if you want to try and be realistic about your comics where a guy from Krypton can fly, but there is legitimacy in saying that Superman is a product of his environment, and his environment was Ma and Pa and Smallville. To expect that everyone who was in Kandor, which is amalgamated with Argo, which all just came back... these people don't just have post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Brainiac, they've also got survivor's guilt like nobody's business. They're all that's left of their culture and their way of life. It's gone. They survived being horribly uprooted, mutilated, and laboratory animal-ed, and you know what? I think it's perfectly within the realm of believability for Superman to look at that and say, "You know what? This could go really, really badly. Maybe I should keep a close eye on it."

Read the complete interview at Newsarama.com.



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