James Harvey
03-23-2002, 01:09 PM
Mike Sangiacomo's Jouney Into Comics at <a href="http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=14&t=000064">Comic Newsarama</a>article focused on Superman and Smallville, as he revealed some of the plans to DC has for the hit series and iconic hero. Below is an excerpt from the article:
<img src="http://news.toonzone.net/images/tomwelling.jpg" align="right">DC plans a one-shot called Smallville, based on the WB television show, but Berganza doubted it would go much further.
"It's a wonderful show and has certainly stretched the limits of the Superman story," he said. "But what works in television does not work as well in the comics. It's hard to get excited about a guy who can sidestep a bullet when comics are loaded with them. It works in television because no one else can do it."
Still, Berganza acknowledged that the complex personalities in the television show are enviable and could do well in the comics.
"I love the relationship between Clark and Luthor," he said. "That scene where he said their friendship would be the stuff of legend gave me shivers."
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solicitations/"><img src="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solicitations/2002-06/superman/t-superman183.jpg" vspace=2 hspace=2 border=0 align="right"></a>Speaking of Superman, Berganza talked about some of the coming events in the life of Superman and Lois.
"We're going to reveal the whole dead between Lois and Lex," he said, referring to Lois' agreement to kill one newspaper story for Lex. "We solve that problem, but it creates new ones."
He said this July Superman and Lois will once again return to Krypton, the one familiar to fans during the Silver Age, as they did last year.
Berganza said there will be some explanation about what that Silver Age style Krypton is and how it relates to the cold, crystalline Krypton established in 1986.
For images and much, much more news, go <a href="http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=14&t=000064">Here</a>.
<img src="http://news.toonzone.net/images/tomwelling.jpg" align="right">DC plans a one-shot called Smallville, based on the WB television show, but Berganza doubted it would go much further.
"It's a wonderful show and has certainly stretched the limits of the Superman story," he said. "But what works in television does not work as well in the comics. It's hard to get excited about a guy who can sidestep a bullet when comics are loaded with them. It works in television because no one else can do it."
Still, Berganza acknowledged that the complex personalities in the television show are enviable and could do well in the comics.
"I love the relationship between Clark and Luthor," he said. "That scene where he said their friendship would be the stuff of legend gave me shivers."
<a href="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solicitations/"><img src="http://www.toonzone.net/comics/solicitations/2002-06/superman/t-superman183.jpg" vspace=2 hspace=2 border=0 align="right"></a>Speaking of Superman, Berganza talked about some of the coming events in the life of Superman and Lois.
"We're going to reveal the whole dead between Lois and Lex," he said, referring to Lois' agreement to kill one newspaper story for Lex. "We solve that problem, but it creates new ones."
He said this July Superman and Lois will once again return to Krypton, the one familiar to fans during the Silver Age, as they did last year.
Berganza said there will be some explanation about what that Silver Age style Krypton is and how it relates to the cold, crystalline Krypton established in 1986.
For images and much, much more news, go <a href="http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=14&t=000064">Here</a>.