2013 Comic Book News Archives
February 23, 2013: Miller on Expanding the "Smallville" Universe
ComicBookResources.com spoke with writer Bryan Q. Miller about the "Smallville: Season 11" comic book series, and how he's expanding the world beyond Clark Kent and the town of Smallville. Here's a part of the interview...
- "Smallville" as a series evolved over the years from a sci-fi teen drama that occasionally used a bigger piece of DC mythology into a full-on superhero show that used DC characters almost every week. I feel like the "Season 11" comic has upped the scale of that idea even more. You didn't just do a Batman episode. You did Batman, Nightwing and a villain team-up with Mr. Freeze. How intentional has that been?
I think where we got to with the show, which was something of a natural progression, was that the first half of the series was pure Smallvile. It was him as a teenager in his hometown dealing with all the trials and tribulations of what that means... including meteor-affected bad guys. Season 6 and 7 were kind of the transition years where once we hit Season 8 and Clark moved to the big city, suddenly it was a whole different world. You realize that as complicated and difficult as your world previously felt, the change of going to college or getting a career or whatever suddenly makes you a small fish in a very big pond. That led to sci-fi conceits with the Earth 2 stuff, magic conceits with Zatanna and Fate and heroic stuff with the JSA. The later seasons were all about making that world bigger while also seeing that growth and exploration through Clark's eyes. And that also kind of explains why no one ever really talked about the JSA before because it really wasn't on Clark's radar. The show was so focused on teenage issues.
With the book, we're taking that to its next evolution - especially since with the drawn and written page we're able to blow a lot more stuff up. We're just going to keep broadening that world based on the foundation of the sci-fi, magical and heroic stuff we did in the later years of the show. This is more about the building of a community of heroes in "Season 11." We did our Batman arc, and we're in the middle of a Flash arc now. The next arc we have coming up will explore some stuff with Booster Gold who we met in Season 10, and we'll have a side story with Martian Manhunter and Batman. It's more about creating the entire world and fleshing that world as presented over the evolution of "Smallville" as a series than it is just being "Smallville: The Comic Book."
2013 Comic News
Listed below are all the Comic News items archived for 2013.- January 3, 2013: Scott Lobdell Talks “Superman #16” and “H'el on Earth”
- January 9, 2013: Andy Diggle to Write “Bright & Optimistic” Superman
- January 12, 2013: Pulling Apart Rocafort's “Superman #15” Cover
- January 12, 2013: “Smallville: Season 11” Voted Favorite Digital First Series
- January 15, 2013: DC Prepares Superman Backlist for 2013
- January 15, 2013: Prequel Comic to “Injustice: Gods Among Us”
- January 20, 2013: DC Presents Superman For Free Comic Book Day
- January 20, 2013: Race and Racism in Early Superhero Comics
- January 29, 2013: Changes for “Action Comics” #17 and #18
- February 5, 2013: Tom Taylor Talks “Injustice: Gods Among Us” Comic Book
- February 6, 2013: Grant Morrison on the End of His “Action Comics” Run
- February 7, 2013: New Digital-First Continuity-Free “Adventures of Superman”
- February 8, 2013: New Creative Teams for “Supergirl” and “Superboy”
- February 12, 2013: DC Look at More Superman in 2013
- February 13, 2013: DC Comics, Orson Scott Card and the Adventures of Superman
- February 21, 2013: DC Comics Announces New Batman/Superman Comic Series
- February 21, 2013: Art and Franco on Ending “Superman Family Adventures”
- February 23, 2013: Greg Pak Talks “Batman/Superman” Comic
- February 23, 2013: Miller on Expanding the “Smallville” Universe
- February 26, 2013: Michael Alan Nelson Talks “Supergirl”
- February 27, 2013: Greg Pak Explains “Batman/Superman” Comic
- February 28, 2013: Jordon's Plans for More Action/Adventure in “Superboy”
- March 4, 2013: Scott Snyder & Jim Lee's “Superman Unchained”
- March 5, 2013: Orson Scott Card Story Removed from “Adventures of Superman”
- March 5, 2013: “Batman/Superman” Comic Book - Poll Position
- March 6, 2013: Get New 52 “Action Comics #1” For Free!
- March 8, 2013: “Island Bradman” Superman Comics Sells for $5,000
- March 12, 2013: Looking Ahead at “Superman” with Scott Lobdell
- March 12, 2013: Justin Jordon on Taking Over “Superboy”
- March 12, 2013: “Superman Unchained” Comic Book - Poll Position
- March 17, 2013: Superman Comic Book Writers Discuss “Man of Steel” Movie
- March 18, 2013: “Superman vs. Orson Scott Card” Panel Discussion
- March 19, 2013: “Adventures of Superman” Comic Book - Poll Position
- March 20, 2013: Andy Diggle Quits “Action Comics”
- March 26, 2013: New Documentary - “Necessary Evil: Villains of DC Comics”
- March 26, 2013: New Comic Book Titles - Poll Position
- March 28, 2013: Lana Lang Returns in “Smallville: Season 11”
- April 2, 2013: Scott Snyder Talks “Superman Unchained”
- April 2, 2013: Scott Lobdell Talks Superman Comic Books
- April 3, 2013: Snyder and Lee Discuss “Superman Unchained”
- April 4, 2013: Snyder & Lee Discuss “Superman Unchained” with LA Times
- April 10, 2013: Scott Lobdell Discusses His “Action Comics” Arc
- April 25, 2013: Scott Lobdell Explains Superboy's DNA Origins
- April 26, 2013: JMS Talks About “Superman: Earth One” Volume 3
- April 30, 2013: Johns and Lemire Talk About “Trinity War”
- May 6, 2013: Jeff Lemire Talks “Adventures of Superman” Chapter #2
- May 7, 2013: “Superman: Birthright Turns 10”
- May 7, 2013: “Superman Unchained” Celebrates 75 Years of Superman
- May 10, 2013: Greg Pak Talks “Batman/Superman”
- May 11, 2013: Wonder Woman Comes to “Smallville: Season 11”
- May 13, 2013: Masters of the Universe Meets DC Universe
- May 14, 2013: Jimmy Olsen Almost Died from AIDS
- May 14, 2013: “Adventures of Superman” - Poll Position
- May 17, 2013: Orbit: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Comic Book
- May 20, 2013: Action Comics Vol. 2 is NY Times Best Seller
- May 21, 2013: DC Declares June 12 'Man of Steel' Day
- May 22, 2013: Remodeler Finds “Action Comics #1” Inside House Wall
- May 29, 2013: DC Comics Unveils “Superman Unchained” Logo
- May 30, 2013: WB and DC Celebrating Superman's 75th Anniversary
- June 6, 2013: DC Digital Comics Technology Getting an Interactivity Upgrade
- June 6, 2013: DC Comics Asks Creators: “Why Superman?”
- June 6, 2013: Doomsday's New 52 Origin to Be Explored in “Villains Month”
- June 6, 2013: Michael Alan Nelson Talks “Supergirl”
- June 8, 2013: FIRST LOOK: Jim Lee's Super-Sized Superman
- June 11, 2013: Comic Legend Al Plastino to Appear at Florida Supercon
- June 13, 2013: Scott Snyder Interviewed in The Washington Post
- June 13, 2013: Action Comics #1 Sells For $175,000
- June 15, 2013: Doomsday's Return
- June 16, 2013: Alan Moore Talks Siegel and Shuster
- June 17, 2013: DC Announce New “Superman/Wonder Woman” Comic Book
- June 18, 2013: DC Set to Launch “Justice League 3000” Comic Book
- June 24, 2013: Pak and Kuder New Creative Team on “Action Comics”
- June 24, 2013: Jim Lee Talks “Superman Unchained”
- July 1, 2013: “Adventures of Superman” Creative Line-Up and Schedule Announced
- July 2, 2013: Tony Bedard's Untold Brainiac Story
- July 3, 2013: DC Announces New Annuals for October
- July 9, 2013: “Superman Unchained” Tops Comic Book Sales Charts
- July 10, 2013: New Superman Comic Books - Poll Position
- July 11, 2013: Greg Pak Talks “Action Comics” and “Batman/Superman”
- July 16, 2013: Mahmud Azrar Farewells Supergirl
- July 17, 2013: Q-Collection Preserving Superman Comic Books For Furture Generations
- July 21, 2013: DC Comics: Superman: The New 52 Era Panel from SDCC
- July 22, 2013: Snyder on Lois Lane's Role in “Superman Unchained”
- July 22, 2013: A Look at Early Comic Book Restorations
- August 5, 2013: Greg Pak Has Super-Plans for Superman
- August 7, 2013: Scott Lobdell Talks About the Return of H'El
- August 29, 2013: Scott Lobdell Talks “Krypton Returns”
- September 6, 2013: Changes for “Smallville: Season 11” Comic
- September 11, 2013: Scott Snyder Talks Wraith in “Superman Unchained”
- September 11, 2013: Greg Pak Takes Clark Kent Back to Gotham
- September 12, 2013: Soule and Daniel Discuss “Superman/Wonder Woman” Comic
- September 12, 2013: First Look at Brett Booth Art for “Batman/Superman”
- September 15, 2013: Krypton Returns in “Action Comics Annual #2”
- September 17, 2013: DC Entertainment at New York Comic Con
- September 17, 2013: “Injustice: Gods Among Us” Comic to Return in 2014
- September 20, 2013: Marc Guggenhaim Takes Superman Back to Krypton
- September 20, 2013: Tony Bedard Talks About Writing Supergirl
- September 23, 2013: Marc Guggenhaim Talks “Adventures of Superman - Chapter #22”
- September 24, 2013: Aaron Kuder on Drawing and Writing Superman
- September 29, 2013: “Superman: Red Son” Complete Motion Comic
- September 30, 2013: Scott Lobdell Talks Superman at Las Vegas Comic Expo
- September 30, 2013: Teen Titans, Lex Luthor and Bizarro in “Forever Evil #2”
- October 3, 2013: Bryan Q. Miller Brings Teen Titans to “Smallville”
- October 8, 2013: Favorite “Villain's Month” Issue - Poll Results
- October 9, 2013: Brutal Superman Returns to “Earth 2”
- October 10, 2013: Superman Panels at NYCC
- October 12, 2013: Superman Info and Images from New York Comic Con
- October 12, 2013: New Adversary Set to Trouble Superman in “Action Comics”
- October 15, 2013: Superman/Wonder Woman - Poll Results
- October 18, 2013: NYCC Panels: DEEP DIVE
- October 23, 2013: Marv Wolfman on Taking Over “Superboy”
- October 25, 2013: Al Plastino Donated Artwork Missing
- October 28, 2013: DC Announces Upcoming “Adventures of Superman” Stories
- October 29, 2013: DC Comics to Move From NYC to Burbank
- November 4, 2013: Josh Elder Discusses “Adventures of Superman” Personal Story
- November 4, 2013: Artist Nick Cardy Dies
- November 9, 2013: Marguerite Bennett on Lois Lane One-Shot
- November 11, 2013: Christopher Reeve and George Reeves Tribute Comics
- November 14, 2013: Scott Lobdell Talks Life and Death in “Krypton Returns”
- November 19, 2013: Scott Snyder Discusses “Superman Unchained”
- November 22, 2013: Exclusive - “Superman #25” Preview
- November 24, 2013: Curt Swan Superman (JFK) Cover Sells for $112,015
- November 26, 2013: Al Plastino (1921-2013)
- November 28, 2013: Exclusive Interview with Jim Krueger on “The Dark Lantern”
- December 1, 2013: Tony Bedard on Plans for Supergirl's Future
- December 11, 2013: DC Comics Announces “Futures End” Weekly Series
- December 11, 2013: Shopping - New 52 Trade Paperbacks and Hardcovers
- December 16, 2013: Bryan Q. Miller Discusses “Smallville: Alien”
- December 17, 2013: Further “Adventures of Superman” Announced
- December 21, 2013: Exclusive - “Adventures of Superman #8” Preview
- December 26, 2013: Eddie Berganza Talks Superman Comics in 2014
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