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March 31, 2014: Steve Niles Tells a Superman Ghost Story in "Adventures of Superman"

AOS #49 Newsarama.com caught up with writer Steve Niles and artist Mattew Dow Smith to find out about their "Ghosts of Krypton" one-issue story in today's digital release of "Adventures of Superman" (Chapter #49). Here's a part of the interview...

    Q: Steve, how did the opportunity to write a story for Adventures of Superman come about? And how did you come up with the story?

    Steve Niles: Kind of a nice story actually. Last October my wife and I lost our home in a flood. To help us get back on our feet, Dan DiDio and Jim Lee offered me a ton of work and the Superman story was among them. So DC was a real superhero to us.

    The story itself was something I've wanted to do for a long time. Superman is primarily known for his super strength but what if he came up against a force he couldn't punch his way out of?

    Q: From the title (and your usual genre of choice), I assume this is a horror story?

    Niles: It's a superhero ghost story.

    Q: Those two words don't usually go together, and its even more unusual for Superman. Is it difficult to bring horror into a Superman story? Or does the juxtaposition of the "bright" hero with the "dark" world actually work well?

    Niles: Horror, like comedy, works best when it's a surprise, and Superman going up against a supernatural foe is a surprise, so there were a lot of unique moments to go after. Even Superman is just a little boy when he's alone in the dark. The juxtaposition actually works really well.

    Plus on this one, we had Jordie Bellaire doing colors. Jordie understands that horror stories should be colored differently than superhero stories, and she really added an extra layer of creepy.

Read the entire interview at Newsarama.com.



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