DC has announced that starting with March’s issue #18, Andy Diggle (“The Losers,” “Daredevil”) and Tony Daniel (“Detective Comics”) will be the new creative team on “Action Comics.”
Comic Book Resources spoke to Diggle about the gig, about which he had this to say:
I don’t know how much I can talk about how it will relate to other titles, but like I said, I very much want to balance the extremely epic, massive-scale action heroics with the human side of Kal-El and Clark Kent too. I would like to see him explored a little bit more. And I would like to see his relationship with Lois Lane explored a little bit more in the New 52.
Obviously, the relationship with Wonder Woman is going to complicate that whole dynamic. That could all seem pretty predictable, but with the Wonder Woman wildcard there, it makes everything a little bit more interesting and dramatic.
One of things that really appeals to me about coming into “Action Comics” now is the fact that, with the creation of the New 52, continuity has stopped exploding for the first time in years. It’s created a level playing field where you can actually go in and start building new stories from the ground up without having the continuity turmoil, which used to be the case for a long time. It’s actually very exciting to build something new, and everyone at DC is pulling in the same direction. Everyone is building this new continuity from the ground up and giving it a degree of internal cohesion and internal logic rather than piecing it together over decades, which is what we had before. That’s exactly what you want as a writer in a shared universe.
Diggle also revealed that the Super-titles were going to be more in line with each other, and that his “Action” run will take place in the current continuity, as opposed to Grant Morrison’s 5 years earlier timeline.
DC also released this “promo” image from Tony Daniel. Is this the same costume we saw at the end of “Superman” #0, or yet another dark take on the classic Superman suit?
