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June 24, 2013: Pak and Kuder New Creative Team on "Action Comics"

Parasite Writer Greg Pak and artist Aaron Kuder have been announced as the new creative team taking over "Action Comics" starting in November.

    "The book is called Action. So we want to have big action. And it's Superman! Superman's gotta do crazy, huge things," Pak says. "At the same time, every step of the way in order for me to care and you to care, whatever Superman is going through has to resonate on that emotional level."

    Kuder is equally excited about working on Action Comics as well as with Pak. "I am a huge fan of Greg's work and, as a person, he's a super nice guy. I mean, come on, it's freaking Superman!" says the artist, who is writing and illustrating a special Superman one-shot in September featuring the villain Parasite.

    One of the themes Pak wants to explore with Superman is that even with all the drama and heroism, he's just regular-dude Clark Kent at his core, a Kryptonian-born guy who grew up in Kansas with regular people, still trying to make sense of the power he has.

    "It's not like he grew up among people like him from day one and all his power was just totally natural and supported by everyone around him and everything was cool," Pak says. "He grew up as a normal kid who discovered he had these powers and it was terrifying and it set him apart from everybody else and it gave him incredible responsibilities.

    "In a weird way, that replicates everybody's experience. Just as regular people, as we grow up we learn that we actually have real power. The things that we do can hurt people terribly, can break hearts, can break stuff, or they can be a real help to people. And it's up to each of us to figure out what we're going to do with our own abilities."

Read the complete report/interview at the USA Today website.



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