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Action Comics #890

June 15, 2010: Paul Cornell Talks "Action Comics"

DigitalSpy.co.uk caught up with Paul Cornell to ask him about his up-coming run as writer of "Action Comics". Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    You'll be focusing on Lex Luthor, but are we going to be seeing anything of Superman?

    "No, in short. It's really Lex's title, and Supes is in it in as much as everything Lex does is about Superman. This is very much about Superman; it's the shape of the hole he leaves when he goes, a tactic used before to some effect in different media. Lex is endlessly fascinating and this is plunging deep into his character, putting him under some great duress and seeing what comes out. One of the things I'm really pleased with is that we're not allowed for one moment to think Lex is a hero. He does something absolutely despicable straight out. He doesn't find redemption straight away, if at all. It's not a series about wallowing in his villainy either. There are certain admirable things about him. He's Prometheus: he wants to grab the fire from the superheroes and, he thinks to himself, bring it back to people. Lex doesn't understand that Superman isn't an alien. He's Clark Kent, a very nicely brought up young man who has an interesting ethnic heritage. These are all the wonderful contradictions inside him and because this series puts him up against people who are worse than or just as bad as him, we might find ourselves rooting for him as the lesser of two evils."

Read the complete interview at the Digital Spy website.

Paul's first issue of "Action Comics" is #890, on sale from June 30th.



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