Join us on June 24 at 2pm PT/5pm ET for a Q&A with Mark Russel and Michael Allred! Have questions about kicking off a brand new Superman storyline? Want to know what inspired the talented team behind this new journey? Drop all of your burning questions in the thread below, and come back next week for a chance to have your question answered by Mark and Michael!
Please remember to submit only one question ! We have a limited time with Mark and Michael, so we’ll try to get through as many questions as possible.
Hey guys, big fan of your writing Mark and absolutely adore your art Michael! Since this is a take that sets itself during the time period of the Pre-Crisis Superman I was wondering what you two see as the biggest difference between the Pre-Crisis version and the ones that came later.
For Mark Russell.
In comic books, fictional characters often times outlive their original creators. What will you do to show respect for the source material while retaining your style of storytelling?
Thanks for participating and answering our questions. In the promos, I’ve read the story apparently takes place over a few decades, I am wondering if we are getting a single version of Superman throughout, or different pre crisis versions of him in each decade, similar to how he was portrayed in each decade.
Hey guys, really looking forward to this. Allred interiors in anything are always great news - one of my recent cool finds in a physical bookstore was an near mint copy of the Superman/Madman trade last year.
Mark, in the publicity for this book, you are quoted as saying:
… because I’ve always found Superman such a philosophically fascinating character, one which forces us to ask how different would the world be if we chose to be our best selves?”
And I am curious, based on what you did with the Fantastic Four for DC’s main competitor recently and some of your other, more recent published sequential art stories generally, how you are hoping to explore this aspect (’[being] our best selves’) in Space Age, or if we shouldn’t expect that and this concept was merely what interested you about Clark/Superman generically?
Wow I’m very excited to read this one, I recently completed Fantastic Four: Life Story, and I’m assuming this is a very similar concept of the comic book character actually aging and going through traditional life stages over the decades instead of remaining static as they do in the comics. My question is: how far apart did you both find yourselves at times over which direction things should go based on your personal philosophies about meaning of life, politics etc.?
We are rescheduling today’s Q&A for a later date–I’ll be updating this thread with the new date, so keep an eye out for more info. Thank you for understanding!
Nooooooo!!! Now I have to wait til after camp to check this out! Well, I hope everyone else has a great time! I’ll be sure to check this out when I get back!
