Posted by Frank Reynolds at spider-wm027.proxy.aol.com on April 02, 2000 at 22:35:27:
In Reply to: Re: Supergirl posted by Peter David on April 02, 2000 at 20:08:37:
: The thing is, when I was handed the title, it would have been extremely
easy to turn it into yet-another-clone of the mainline Superman titles.
But I decided that the only hope of survival the book would have would be
if I went off in a wildly different direction. Explore things that had
never really been explored in an "S" book before. Things that *I* had
never done stories about. So I used it as a vehicle to do stories
centering on theology, philosophy, the nature of love, matters of faith,
and the essential goodness (or lack thereof) of man.
I have to admit, the way you talk about it now, it sounds interesting.
When I said the mystical/sorcery stuff turned me off, I meant simply what I
saw as the pentagram/wizard-blast stuff. I like to think of myself as
somewhat spiritual...I was Jesuit-raised, and I loved Gaiman's SANDMAN
series, and my fave books are Irving's PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY and Helprin's
WINTER'S TALE....maybe I gave up on Supergirl too easy. I just remember
what I saw as the "Dungeons & Dragons" stuff early on turning m