Morrison talks ALL-STAR SUPERMAN

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Source: Newsarama

For a few months insiders in the world of comic books have been whispering about a new plan by DC Comics to take on Marvel's Ultimate line of books. As you may or may not know, Marvel's Ultimate lineup took several of the company's well-established superhero characters, like Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, and placed them in a contemporary world like our own. What would happen if the Hulk showed up in the middle of downtown Manhattan and went beserk? As we saw in the pages of THE ULTIMATES, hundreds of New Yorkers died and billions of dollars of property damage was the result. Real world, real complications.

Getting back to DC Comics, the rumor was that the House that Superman built was also interested in offering their readers contemporary reboots of their high-profile characters. While nothing has been officially announced by DC yet, gossip hints that DC will be introducing Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman comics done in the Ultimate way. Finally, today, confirmation of at least one of the new books came -- but not from DC's corner.

Appearing today on the comic book website Newsarama is an exclusive interview with writer Grant Morrison (NEW X-MEN, WE3, JLA) in which he confirms that he will be writing the new Superman comic, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN. Onboard with Morrison will be Frank Quietly, the artist who collaborated with the writer on WE3 and his run on Marvel's NEW X-MEN. Both Morrison and Quietly will be on the new SUPERMAN book for at least 12 issues. Newsarama reports that ALL-STAR SUPERMAN will make its bow in the later half of 2005.

Morrison reveals many of his ideas for his run on ALL-STAR SUPERMAN including how he will introduce Superman's origin and his story takes on several issues including new enemies the last Kryptonian will face. Also of note is Morrison's philosophy with the character and what he believes are the core values of any good Superman story:

"I don't think we need to 'make' Superman relevant," Morrison explains in his Newsarama interview. "We just have to tell stories which resonate with human experience. The best Superman stories are fables about love, pride, shame, fear, death, friendship etc. We can all relate to those big issues. Superman stories should represent huge, basic human dramas and human emotions, played out on a larger than life canvas."

For more, check out the Newsarama interview here.



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