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February 7, 2014: Death of Superman in the New 52 Comics

Doomsday Newsarama.com caught up with writer Charles Soule to discuss a huge upcoming event set to take place across all the major Superman comic book titles, while also discovering what the truth is behind the "Death of Superman" story within the New 52 continuity. Here's a portion of the interview...

    Q: Charles, are you guys all working together on this story? Do the various Doomsday issues in April go together?

    Charles Soule: We've been working on this together for months to build a cohesive and really cool storyline across a number of Superman group books.

    Q: So is it longer than just April - it's several months? And does it touch more Super-books than just those we see in April?

    Soule: It goes for quite awhile. I don't want to say it's a certain number of issues, because what we're doing is leaving it open and making sure there's enough room for the story we want to tell. It's very, very big. It goes through the late spring and summer.

    It crosses through a number of books. And we're going to look at the effect of Doomsday appearance on all the different characters.

    The fun thing about the Superman group is that we have a lot of different elements of Superman, with Superman/Wonder Woman, it's about, in part, his relationship with Wonder Woman. So we'll see how Doomsday returning affects that. And all the other books have their own spin on it too.

    Q: Ah, so is this the next big thing for Superman?

    Soule: It doesn't get much bigger than this. I mean, Doomsday is certainly where we're starting, but there's a lot more that's involved with it, and it's going to put Superman, his entire supporting cast, and a lot of the rest of the DCU through the ringer.

    And that's the idea. Superman's due for a real, big, universe-shattering story, and this is certainly that.

Read the complete report and interview at Newsarama.com.



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