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I've waited for this chance all my life and I feel I owe Superman as much thought and effort as anything else I'm doing. I'm taking this assignment very seriously. I want to give Superman the power, dignity and relevance he deserves and I see it as a way of paying back the DC universe for all the pleasure it's given me over the years, as a fan and a creator.

I don't think we need to 'make' Superman relevant. We just have to tell stories which resonate with human experience. The best Superman stories are fables about love, pride, shame, fear, death, friendship etc. We can all relate to those big issues. Superman stories should represent huge, basic human dramas and human emotions, played out on a larger than life canvas.

I have a very specific visual style in mind - a kind of Jules Feiffer, Will Eisner, Jack Davis take on our hero and on the action in around the Daily Planet in particular. I'm looking for an exaggerated, emotive approach inspired by the melodramatic gestures of Jewish theater. Vin [Frank Quitely] is the only artist who can pull off the kind of subtlety it takes to capture the clumsy, awkward, caffeine-driven buzz of Metropolis, the City of Tomorrow, with its hyperscrapers and cargo blimps and cranky machines, or the balletic movements and interactions of the Planet staff, each with his or her own special body language.

http://www.newsarama.com/DC/AS/AllStarSuperman_Morrison.htm