Grant Morrison’s as Sick of Tyrant Superman as You Are

Ever since Injustice: Gods Among Us confirmed up in 2013 with its tackle Superman as a despot, and Man of Steel supplied a tackle the superhero that was extra brutal than the variations that got here earlier than, the thought of the Man of Steel being something apart from a shining beacon of hope has been met with disdain. Those who dislike that model of Superman actually dislike it, and you may depend comedian author Grant Morrison amongst them.

In an interview with Irish Youtuber Daniel Fee, Morrison spoke about how he was introduced again to DC Comics and extra particularly, the Superman & the Authority miniseries from earlier this 12 months. Originally, they weren’t all in favour of coming again to the writer, however then Editor-in-Chief Dan Didio managed to speak them into writing The Green Lantern from 2018 and 2020, and that very same trick labored with the Superman e book. The plan was for the e book to be part of the “Generation Five” initiative—which was mentioned to have new or current characters take the mantle of established heroes, and has since been reworked into “Future State” from earlier this 12 months. And the plan for Superman was…nicely, it positive was one thing!

“The idea was that Superman was now this super right-wing authoritarian, and he formed this team the Authority to take over,” Morrison laughed. They shortly shot that down, saying, “Superman is not a right-wing authoritarian! That’s not how you do it…please don’t make him a right-wing tyrant guy, that’s just not Superman.”

Thus, Morrison and Mikel Janin’s Superman & the Authority was born, as a result of they had been fearful that another person might make Supes right into a fascist. Their intention was to painting the Man of Steel as “like a dad, but he’s having to lay down the law sometimes, but only for the best reasons.” If Morrison has their method and doesn’t get “tricked” once more, this’ll be the final e book they do with DC, and so they’re advantageous with that. Much as they felt extra like they needed to work on the e book to guard the character, they admitted they had been comfortable it was their final DC challenge.

In the previous, Morrison talked about how they need Authority to see Clark undergo one thing of a midlife disaster. Having written the character in several continuities, Morrison nonetheless finds a connection between his varied takes on the character. In their eyes, this Superman of Authority connects completely with the t-shirt sporting Superman they wrote for Action Comics throughout the New 52 earlier than his eventual cosmic merging along with his post-Crisis on Infinite Earths self. “Early years Superman, I feel as if that’s the same guy as the Authority. He was just a wild young kid, a punk, he just doesn’t care…I imagine [Authority] being the old version of that. I don’t know if they all fit together, but in my head, they all fit together.” Whether they join or not, none of Morrison’s Superman takes would attempt to take over the planet, so not less than there’s that.

Superman & the Authority is out now as a hardcover.

[H/T Ritesh Babu]

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