2014 Comic Book News Archives

May 16, 2014: Greg Pak and Charles Soule Talk "Superman: Doomed"

Superman: Doomed #2 Comicosity.com sat down for a chat with Greg Pak and Charles Soule to discuss the "Superman: Doomed" event currently taking place across most of the main Superman comic book titles. With "Superman: Doomed #1" and "Action Comics #31" both having been released this week, the guys talk about the impact of this story on Superman as a character. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    We see Superman having the same debate a lot of comic fans have had over the past year - can Superman kill and still be Superman? What do you think this encounter with Doomsday adds to that discussion?

    Charles Soule: This is something that we've spent an enormous amount of time on. You can see it addressed pretty thoroughly in the issue itself, in the conversation he has with Perry White. As the story continues, you'll see that it has direct emotional and physical effects on Superman. There's also a whole metaphorical side to it with Superman. You cross that line and then what does it do to Superman and the world. What is the world like with a Superman who has done this.

    At the same time, I think the speech that Perry gives him in Doomed #1 lays out my point of view on this. There are situations where you just have to rely on your internal moral code - the way that you have been brought up. Sometimes you have to make decisions where you don't know who you're going to be on the other side. You don't know what's going to happen. You just know there's a right choice and a wrong choice, and you make that right choice even though it's not perfect. You know the way you have to go, and find out who you are on the other side of that decision.

    I'm not saying that's everything that Doomed explores, but we're dealing with that quite a bit.

Read the entire interview at Comicosity.com.

[Note: Image shown is for "Superman: Doomed #2"]



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