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There's a thoughtfulness to the way comics are read - people will look twice at something and think about what it means. The insular nature of the story made me want to get a little bit experimental, and when you're working with an artist as powerful as Jock, there's a great freedom to really explore the medium and use 'visual art' in an interpretive way that would just get people confused if you did it in a movie. We're experiencing a Joker at the very beginning of his career as a 'super-criminal.' I've always found the Joker, like Superman, to be a somewhat 'blurry' character. How does the supervillain tie into your story?Ī.

Jock first tweeted a page last month from your story featuring various depictions of the Joker in media over the years. Landis, who directed Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore and others in a 17-minute short film for his take on one of the most infamous Superman story lines ever, talks with USA TODAY about going up, up and away with the character, his major writing influences and why the concept of reinvention is so important to him. I wanted to play a little bit and see how it felt to put words in his mouth, to put him into action.' 'This was my first time ever officially writing a character that's very important to me, so I didn't want to just insert myself as an authority. The screenwriter of the movie Chronicle, son of director John Landis and maker of YouTube videos on everything from pro wrestling to post-surgery painkillers, Landis gets a shot to take on a beloved iconic hero with 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping,' a two-part story in DC Comics' digital-first Adventures of Superman series.ĭebuting Monday with artwork by Jock ( The Losers), the 'very microcosmic' tale centers on the first time Superman ever encountered Batman's arch nemesis the Joker that's 'almost more of a portrait than an actual issue,' Landis, 28, says. One probably doesn't have to do a video with their 42-minute pitch on how to do the death and return of Superman to impress people enough to do a Man of Steel comic book.īut, in Max Landis' case, it didn't hurt.

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