2014 Comic Book News Archives

October 13, 2014: Straczynski Talks "Superman: Earth One - Volume Three"

Superman: Earth One - Vol 3 J. Michael Straczynski participated in an interview with PreviewsWorld.com to discuss the upcoming third volume in the "Superman: Earth One" graphic novel series. The writer explains the choices lined up for the Man of Steel, and how this latest installment is emotional, and with "a lot of personal resonance". Here are a couple of excerpts from the interview...

    Q: New readers may want to know if the story behind Volume 3 is something you wrote independent of the first two installments. Would they have to go to Volume 1 first in order to put this edition in perspective?

    J. Michael Straczynski: Volume Three is written in such a way that it can be read mostly independent from the first two books in that you don't need to have read them to follow this story, though it adds a lot of dimension and background if you have read them. Certainly that would be ideal. But you can't always count on or assume that level of familiarity. So yeah, you can absolutely follow the story of volume 3 if you haven't read 1 and 2. It would just be wonderfully spiffy if you have.

    Q: Without giving away too much, what scene(s) would you most likely want to blog about as being representative of the tone or fun factor for Superman: Earth One Volume 3?

    J. Michael Straczynski: There's a scene in which Superman has been momentarily de-powered, cannot possibly survive the next blow, the death-blow...when the least likely person in the world who could save him, does so, at terrible personal cost. I think it's going to be the scene most people are talking about after the book comes out. It turns the Superman mythos upside-down but in a way that is totally consistent with what we've set up so far.

Read the full interview at PreviewsWorld.com.

"Superman: Earth One - Volume Three" will be released on February 4, 2015. You can pre-order your copy from our Online Store now.



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