2009 Comic Book News Archives

Worlds Finest #1

October 29, 2009: Sterling Gates Talks "World's Finest"

Writer Sterling Gates spoke with Newsarama.com about his new four-issue mini-series "World's Finest". Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    Newsarama: I think people were concerned when this mini-series was announced that it was going to be too much like Superman/Batman. But this is a little different from a straight-up Superman and Batman team-up series, isn't it?

    Sterling Gates: Yeah, it's very different. The Batman universe is so full of change right now. So is the Superman universe. Bruce Wayne is dead and Superman has left the planet Earth to be with his own people on New Krypton. The world is suddenly without its two greatest heroes. To me, that makes it a very exciting time for the DC Universe. You're seeing new and different characters come to the forefront and stepping up to fill the void left with Superman and Batman gone.

    Both corners of the DCU have old characters taking on new mantles or new characters taking on old mantles. We wanted to develop a limited series that would pair off all of these people and see what they were like. World's Finest allows us to spotlight all of these new characters and show how similar or how different they are.

    This way, we might be introducing a Batman fan to the epic story we're telling in the Superman books, or showing a Superman reader the exciting and compelling changes that are going on in the Batman books right now.

Read the complete interview at Newsarama.com.



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