ROMITA JR. SOBRE SUPERMAN

Here's a character that's been done a million times by fantastic artists, fantastic writers. How do you come up with something new, and something different? It's a problem that exists forever, and it's only going to get worse. [Laughs] Guys that start this in 25 years, I pity. [Johns] has come up with this great premise. 

Visually, is the only question here. The costume is pretty much limiting. He's got the cape, he's got the blue, he's got the S's on both sides -- what do you do with that? You play with it. Jim Lee played with it nicely -- this is a segmented costume, and it's a nice combination of things. But I'm still stunted. How do you go beyond what's been done before? You just come up with quality, and pray that it's different.

I knew there was an intimidation factor, because the character is so storied. But getting on it, and then realizing, "This has been done before -- I've got to come up with something different" -- [Johns] helped out with that, and then [Janson] helped out with that. The style we have on "Superman" hasn't been done before, and I think that helps, in a big way.