A longtime Marvel Comics scribe for everything from Incredible Hulk to X-Treme X-Men, Greg Pak makes his DC Comics debut a memorable one with the DC's two most famous superheroes in the upcoming ongoing series Batman/Superman, debuting in June and teaming the writer with artist Jae Lee (Inhumans, The Dark Tower).
"Working in comics, almost every project you do for DC or Marvel deals with these amazing characters that are so much fun to work with," Pak tells USA Today. "But, wow, Superman and Batman? That kind of lifts your hat and spins it around in the air a bit. "It is a real thrill, and it's particularly a thrill because we're being given some real leeway to do some really important storytelling with these characters. It really defines some great things and to depict some really key moments for them."
While Justice League as well as various Batman and Superman comics showcase the superheroes in the present, Pak and Lee catch up with the world's finest in the past of DC's "New 52" relaunched continuity.
Bruce Wayne is new to putting on a cape and cowl and patrolling the streets of Gotham City, while Superman — when not in civilian mode as budding journalist Clark Kent — is a recently realized hero to the working class clad in jeans, cape and a spiffy, S-logo T-shirt.
When the two run into each other, well, sparks fly. Some steely stares and maybe a few punches, too. "We've been given the incredible opportunity to show these two icons meeting for the first time at this very early and raw stage in their careers," Pak says. "Neither one of them has ever heard of the other guy."
While there's a threat to both men that will be revealed in time — "Folks are going to be very pleasantly excited when they find out about it," Pak teases — some conflict from the first Superman/Batman arc will come just from these two guys. Both are figuring out who they are as young men and as heroes but also have a lot of questions about each other.
"What would your reaction be if you saw a guy running around in a bat costume in the dead of night attacking people for the first time? And what would your reaction be if you met an alien who could crush steel in his bare hands for the first time?" the writer says. "These guys are going to have very different immediate impressions of each other than we're used to seeing with these characters. "There's an element of danger to the book that I think is very real and very exciting."
"It's a real privilege and I am real grateful to get my feet wet with them," Pak says. Batman/Superman is "a really exciting place to discover who these guys are, and the things we're going to discover particularly in this first story arc will have ramifications later on down the line," he adds. "We're going to start in the past but it'll reverberate through. It'll be big and crazy and tons of fun." The two characters have been a part of DC since the late 1930s.
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