2014 Comic Book News Archives

April 3, 2014: Soule Talks "Superman/Wonder Woman" and "Superman: Doomed"

Superman: Doomed #1 Writer Charles Soule spoke to ComicBookResources.com about his work on the "Superman/Wonder Woman" title, and the expectations for the upcoming "Superman: Doomed" saga set to crossover with other Superman comic book titles.

    [Superman and Wonder Woman] are two of the biggest characters in any type of fiction, being presented in a slightly different context, since there is the romance element, which hasn't really been there before. How much do you enjoy that blend of something that is so established, but in a way that people haven't seen?

    I love it. Honestly, that is one of the things that attracted me to this project in the first place, because it was a chance to do something new with characters that everything has been done with, and that does not come along very often. So I jumped on it the minute it was offered. I feel like it's a responsibility, and it's something that I spend a lot of time trying to get right. I obsess over it in a way that I don't obsess over some of the other books, but hopefully that shows in the scripts and the finished product.

    Doomsday has been a part of the book since the beginning, and things are now moving to the "Superman: Doomed" crossover. What interested you about Doomsday, and were you reading DC Comics during the original "Death of Superman" back in 1992?

    Yes, I was, and that was one of the first big crossover events that really grabbed me as a kid. As far as Doomsday now, it's been more than 20 years since that happened, so this is a chance to take that storyline and subvert people's expectations of it a little bit. It's kind of like "Superman/Wonder Woman" itself - people think it's going to be X, and we're going to do Y, Z, A, B, C, 1, 2, 3 - a whole bunch of different things that they're not necessarily expecting to happen. Which is fun. It's part of the process of working on a big event like that. I'm working on it with Greg Pak and Scott Lobdell, and we've really come up with some cool stuff.

Read the entire interview at the CBR website.



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