Then, waving a fork in an unnecessarily aggressive manner, I got going… He waited for me to take a breath while he ordered another bottle of our favourite ZD. The notion behind the Superman and the Authority series as it was proposed to me was that Superman – who had aged in real time since his 1938 arrival on Earth and was now 82 going on 55 and with diminishing powers - would inevitably grow more and more autocratic as he got older and his son took his place as a new and more popular switched-on Superman.ĭan knew exactly how I’d feel about this. If any version of Supergirl should serve as a template for the character moving forward, this is the one… When I brought the Maid of Might into the Final Crisis series, my take was very much inspired by the Dylan Horrocks/Jessica Abel story from 2002’s Bizarro Comics anthology book – in my opinion quite simply the greatest Supergirl comic ever. Why, I say, oh why, is it so hard to simply serve the concept and write the adventures of a smart, creative and kind-hearted teenage girl with superpowers? What purpose earthly or unearthly is served by making this character an embittered space tyrant?
Let me take you back to our favourite table at the West Hollywood Sunset Marquis where DC publisher Dan Didio knew how to hook me like a prize trout – he and his writers had ‘come up with’ plans he told me, to shake up the Superman books plans that included Superman’s son graduating to the primary role as Earth’s heroic protector while a disillusioned older Superman became ever more right wing and authoritarian… eventually assembling a new version of the Authority team to enact his patrician will.Ĭoncurrent plans existed to push Supergirl in an increasingly fascistic direction for reasons that made scant sense to me.
Ah, it’s you again! Pull up a stool, take a seat there by the window where I can keep an eye on that hook of yours.
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