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December 11, 2015: Gene Luen Yang Says Superman Hasn't Hit Rock Bottom Yet

Superman #47 "Superman" writer Gene Luen Yang spoke with Newsarama.com about the journey Clark Kent has taken over the past few months, the lows he's hit... and how much lower he'll get in upcoming issues. Here's part of the interview...

    You've really stripped away much of what people might expect from Superman - he's not only without his powers, but he's without most of his supporting cast, without his Clark Kent identity, and even far away from Metropolis. Why take him so far away from those things? Was the idea to strip him down to nothing but the man behind the "S?"

    Gene Luen Yang: Yeah. What we on the Superman team wanted to do was strip Superman down to his essence. Nowadays, we think of him as this all-powerful character, but when he started, he wasn't. He had a very limited power set. He couldn't even fly. When they'd talk about him leaping tall buildings in a single bound, he was actually doing that. He was actually just leaping. He wasn't flying.

    So we backed him up to his original power set. We stripped him digitally, so all he has is his shield, his emblem. And even that, we backed it up to a Fleischer era-esque look.

    What we want to do in all these issues, in all the Superman books, is talk about what Superman is at his core - even apart from his normal supporting cast, even apart from the power set that modern audiences associate with him. What is he at his core?

    That's really what I want to get to in this next issue that's coming out, in Superman #47.

Read the complete interview at the Newsarama website.

Issue #47 of "Superman" will be released on Wednesday, December 23.



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