2013 Comic Book News Archives

July 11, 2013: Greg Pak Talks "Action Comics" and "Batman/Superman"

Darkseid ComicsAlliance.com caught up with writer Greg Pak about being tasked to write "Action Comics" and "Batman/Superman" at the same time. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    ComicsAlliance: How did you get the job writing Action Comics? Was it something where they were just thrilled with your Batman/Superman scripts and were like "here, take another book?"

    Greg Pak: I don't know. I'd been working with Eddie Berganza on the Batman/Superman book. He's the editor of that book, and he's also the Superman group editor who oversees all the Superman titles, and in all of our conversations, I threw out a ton of different ideas for stories and talked a ton about the characters, and we talked a lot about Superman. We talked about his villains as well, and at a certain point, he started talking to me about doing these Villain Month books for September.

    I ended up getting tapped to do the Zod, Darkseid and Doomsday books, and of course, these all feature prominently in the Superman mythos, so we ended up talking more about Superman. They were looking for someone to do Action, and I guess it started to make sense. Eddie and I had a lot of fun talking about different stories and I was thrilled when I got the call.

    I've literally jumped up and down three or four times in my comics career when I got the call and found out I'd gotten a certain gig, and this was definitely one of them. I was so excited.

    CA: It's interesting that Batman/Superman is a book from the Superman group and not the Batman group. Do you work with both teams?

    GP: It's from the point of view of both characters, so they get equal time and equal emphasis is given to them, but the book has to land somewhere in terms of who's actually editing it and where it's being produced. It's one of Eddie's books, so it's technically coming out of the Superman family and edited by the Superman editor, but Batman fans, do not worry. We all love Batman. We love Bruce and those two characters share importance in the book.

Read the entire interview at the Comics Alliance website.



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