It’s about an old man in a car in the middle of winter. It’s not like it was a big hit or anything. And this is one of the things that will happen with Jeph and me - we both remembered it, and we’d never spoken of it prior. Paul Chadwick wrote and drew the Superman story. The other thing was there was a DC Christmas special that was an anthology. And if you’re Superman, you can do a lot more obviously than most people, but you’re still going to be constrained by what you can and can’t do. So Americana, not America and goodness as an ideal, something to aspire to, not reality necessarily. One was Norman Rockwell, and an idea of describing America and goodness via an image of it. In my memory, it was very quickly that I suddenly did, and I don’t know what prompted it, but I know that my in was influenced by two things. We’ve now done all three, but having done a lot of Batman there was a sense of “Why not do the other one?” I just didn’t see it. In my opinion, there are only three real icons in comics, and Batman and Superman are two of them, Spider-Man being the other one.
Because he loved Superman, but also because he saw the business sense in it.
What I remember is that Jeph had always been interested in doing Superman with me.
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