2010 Comic Book News Archives

Superman: Earth One

February 16, 2010: JMS Talks "Superman: Earth One"

In the first part of a 5-part expose, Newsarama.com speaks with writer J. Michael Staczynski about the up-coming "Superman: Earth One" original graphic novel. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    Newsarama: How would you describe the story you're going out to tell in the first volume of Superman: Earth One?

    J. Michael Straczynski: As a writer, one of my skills -- if one can call it that without getting big laughs -- is to re-examine the tropes of whatever genre or form I'm working in (comics, tv, movies, and so on). Coming from an academic background of psychology and philosophy, I like to ask why? We know that a certain thing is a certain way, but why is it that way, and does it have to be that way? Does Asgard have to be somewhere in the sky? If invulnerability keeps you from being harmed, does it also prevent you from feeling sensation? We can all agree that the sun rises in the morning, but put an atheist, a rabbi, an astronomer and an evangelical in the same room at the same time, and they'll all have different answers about why it rises in the morning.

    So I like to look at why a great deal. When DC and Dan DiDio approached me about writing a Superman GN that would in essence reboot the character, why was the first question I went to. We all know that Clark Kent is Superman. But why is he Superman? What prompted him to put on that uniform? Why did he decide to become Superman? What was, for lack of a better term, his Garden of Gethsemane moment? Like Saul on the road to Damascus, what caused the scales to fall from his eyes and reveal his destiny, bringing a new name and a new mission?

Check out the entire interview at Newsarama.com.



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