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February 4, 2010: Levitz Talks "Adventure Comics" and "Superman/Batman"

Paul Levitz spoke with ComicBookResources.com about taking on the Legion of Super-Heroes, "Adventure Comics", and writing a story for the "Superman/Batman" title. Here's an excerpt from the interview...

    I wanted to ask a bit about your "Superman/Batman" story. While a lot of people have looked at this idea of you playing with "Batman Beyond" elements in your work, I've heard that your doing a lot with the title characters in taking Superman to space and having him viewed as a god. Did you want to make this story have an old school "anything can happen in a Superman comic" feel more akin to what was done in the '50s and '60s?

    I think the genesis of that story line was playing around with the idea of a story that would have long term ramifications. At one point in its construction, I was trying to do it as a "same time next year" story where it would take place over a four or five year period with each issue taking place in a different year. As the story evolved, that structure didn't end up working out too well. But I hope it's not an old time story in that it will feel like what was done in the '50s and '60s...I wasn't even writing comics in either of those decades. I was even too young to be reading them in the '50s. But the part of what you said that I did try to do was to do a story that would not have naturally been in either of their books and to take advantage of that. I look at the conjunction of where the characters lives were and not be locked into the continuity of four other titles for each of them going on at the same moment. This could be just a story of this particular moment in their lives. And then you try to do an interesting character resonance off that.

You can read the complete interview at the CBR website.

There's also a similar interview with Paul Levitz at Newsarama.com.



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