2010 Comic Book News Archives

June 29, 2010: Paul Cornell Talks Lex Luthor in "Action Comics"

Action Comics #890 ComicBookResources.com spoke with Paul Cornell to get further details on his Lex Luthor story taking place in "Action Comics", starting with this week's issue #890. Here's a portion of the interview...

    So when you're getting into that character's head in terms of making him the star of his own book, do you say to yourself, "I have to make him sympathetic somehow," or do you kind of revel in the things we want to root against him for?

    It's a tightrope between the two, really. I don't want to revel in his villainy. I think that sort of puts a little distance in between being able to understand him as a real character. I want us to enjoy him, and we're free to enjoy him as soon as he's up against a bunch of villains who are worse than he is - or at least who are at the same level of villainy that he is. But at the same time, I don't ever want us to forget what a bad guy he his. My touchstones would be Mike Carey's "Lucifer" or "Tomb of Dracula" by Marv Wolfman. In those books, to an extraordinary degree, we were never allowed to see the lead characters doing a single good thing, but they remained compelling protagonists because the people they were up against were of an equal level of awfulness.

Read the entire interview at the CBR website.



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