Jeph Loeb and current Superman/Batman writer Michael Green talk about Green taking over the book that Loeb started, over at Wizard:
LOEB: I think he wanted some of the money. [Laughs] He looks at my car rolling in every day—my Porsche.
GREEN: It’s the gold-plated Porsche. Actually, I don’t think that’s plated. I think it’s all gold. [Laughs] Actually, I got into Superman/Batman naively. Naiveté is how I got into it. I was talking to the editor, Eddie Berganza about what would be fun to do, and I always loved that title. I have to say I didn’t read all of Jeph’s stuff until they said I could do it, and then I read it and had that “Oh Sh–!” moment and realized that this was not going to be easy because Jeph’s stuff was fantastic.
LOEB: But then he read the Verheiden’s run and went, “Oh, I can beat that.”
GREEN: Yeah. Verheiden made it look easy again.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
“oh, I can beat that”
True professionals.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I should point out before anyone starts calling Loeb and Green names that just after the quote above ends, they both have very nice things to say about Verheiden and his work and were just busting his chops because both worked with him on “Smallville.”
February 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I think there was a good deal of sarcasm.
But, if you read the run in question, you’d realize their needn’t be.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I wonder if all the smoke Green blows up Loeb’s ass is meant sarcastically. It doesn’t make (actual) sense otherwise.
Whose anti-reality bubble is more impenetrable: Jeph Loeb or George W. Bush?
February 20th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Why is the link to the article just orange underlined text and not actually a link?
February 20th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I fixed it.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
It may be better than the Verheiden run, but not by much: A grim-and-gritty Aquaman? Really? Man the new aquaman is really relaxed and actually would probably ask for the autograph from Superman and Batman than fight them for a stupid reason. Also I can accept a Batman that doesn’t believe in magic, saying that is just something that science didn’t explained yet (even though Justice League Batman clearly believes in magic, he just hates it). But to not believe in the effects of magic? I mean, to have doubts about the cause is something, but to believe your own yes is clearly stupid (not something you expect the world’s greatest detective to be).
I guess Green is infected with the same attitude that “things don’t have to make sense, they just have to be big and loud, and result in fights” that Loeb have.
Kinda sad.
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Sarcasm or not, completely unprofessional.