Morrison talked about how he was brought back to DC Comics in the Superman & the Authority series. They were not interested in coming back to the publisher, but Dan Didio was able to convince them to write The Green Lantern and the Superman book. The plan was for the book to be a part of the Generation Five initiative, which was said to have new or recent characters take the mantle of established heroes. The plan for Superman was something.
Morrison said that the idea was that Superman formed a team to take over. They said thatSuperman is not a right-wing authoritarian. That is not how you do it, please don't make him a right-wing tyrant guy.
Morrison and Janin were worried that someone else might make Supes into a fascist. They wanted to portray the Man of Steel as a father, but he is having to lay down the law sometimes, but only for the best reasons. If Morrison doesn't get tricked again, this will be the last book they do with DC, and they're fine with that. They admitted that they were happy that it was their last DC project, as they felt like they had to work on the book to protect the character.
Morrison has talked about how they want authority to see Clark go through a midlife crisis. Morrison still finds a connection between his different takes on the character. The t-shirt they wrote for Superman in the New 52 connected perfectly with the Superman of Authority they wrote for him in the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths self. I feel like that is the same guy as the Authority. He was just a wild young kid, a punk, and he just doesn't care. I don't know if they all fit together, but they all fit together in my head. Morrison's Superman takes would not try to take over the planet, so at least there is that.
The hardcover edition of Superman & the Authority is out now.
H/T [Ritesh Babu]
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