Posted by Peter David at spider-ti063.proxy.aol.com on April 03, 2000 at 03:10:23:
In Reply to: Re: Supergirl posted by Frank Reynolds on April 02, 2000 at 22:35:27:
: : 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
There's the occasional dabbling of mysticism, I suppose. Then again, that occasionally goes hand in hand with theology (look at Kabbalah.)
If you want to read an issue that summarizes where we are up to now, check #35. With a tip of the hat to the Phantom, it's called "For Those Who Came In Late." Or you can just jump into the deep end of the pool with the current #44. Whichever. To a certain degree, I've been trying to emulate the sense of an expansive mythology which Neil brought to SANDMAN.
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