![]() IGN: Superman’s love life continued to be a main element of this story. If you have read the prior volumes, you'll enjoy it more, but if you haven't, you will absolutely have no problem following the current story. ![]() IGN: How accessible is this volume to new readers? Do readers need to have read the first two in order to pick this one up? JMS: All three books are written with the approach that you can read any one of them and get a full story, with all the necessary exposition tucked into that volume. It's not so much one specific lesson as a process of growth for both writer and characters. It's a fun process because the characters are going through a very similar journey as well: Clark is trying to figure out where he fits in at the Daily Planet as the new guy who just happened to nail the interview of the century (and is thus a target of some suspicion) and Superman is trying to figure out where to draw the line between what he can do and what he should do, and is thus also a target of suspicion and concern by government leaders worried about that kind of unchecked power in the aftermath of some regime change in v2. Michael Straczynski: I think it's really a matter of becoming incrementally more comfortable with Clark and Superman as characters, on their own and the ways in which those two personas intersect. ![]() ![]() ![]() IGN Comics: Reflecting back on the first two volumes of Superman: Earth One, what did you learn that you incorporated into this third volume? J. ![]()
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