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July 28, 2015: Gene Luen Yang "Superman" Interview

Superman #42 DC Comics has published an interview with "Superman" writer Gene Luen Yang, to find out more about the writer's background, his thoughts on Superman as a character, and how his title lines up with the other Superman books. Here are a few excerpts from the interview...

    How many issues will it take for your story to get to some of the events - the loss of Superman's power, making his secret identity public - that the other books are reacting to?

    The first storyline, "Before Truth," runs from issue #41-#44. At the end of #44, we'll see Superman the way he is in Action Comics #41 - a depowered, exposed Superman.

    What we're really trying to do is get to the core of who Superman is. So we're taking away a lot of his iconic visuals - we took away the spit curl, the cape. We left him with just the "S" and even that's not the same, it's more of the Fleischer "S" from the old animation.

    Personally, what do you like best about the Man of Steel?

    I have a love of super heroes in general. I started collecting super heroes in the fifth grade and I just loved them. But now as an adult, I look back on that and I wonder if some of it has to do with my being a child of immigrant parents. Superman, Batman, even the heroes from the competition - they were all created by these children of Jewish immigrants. I feel like they've embedded parts of their experience into the genre. And Superman himself is literally an immigrant.

Read the entire interview at the DC Comics website.



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