SCOTT SNYDER Talks SUPERMAN: UNCHAINED Conclusion


WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR SUPERMAN: UNCHAINED.

With the critically acclaimed comic series nearing the end of its run, Superman: Unchained writer, Scott Snyder talks to Newsarama about the book’s themes and direction.

Superman: Unchained, an out-of-continuity series started last June and is ending with issue #9 this April. It’s going to be a sad day for Superman fans because they will be losing one of the best, if not the best, Superman series on shelves right now.

On Lex Luthor, Snyder said “Lex’s part really becomes apparent, coming up. We wanted to keep it pretty secret for a little while, and take him off the table so readers would, oh, well they forgot about him and he’s gone.”

The surprising (or not so surprising for those of you who are following Forever Evil) is that Snyder also says that resident megalomaniac Lex Luthor is “not really the villain of the story, and I think that’s why his role is so interesting in this story.”

Currently, in the main DC Universe, Lex Luthor is leading a team of supervillains against the Crime Syndicate in Forever Evil and he will soon be taking Superman’s seat on the Justice League.

Despite the fact that there are no more details about Lex Luthor’s role in Superman: Unchained so far, there are details about another character – Wraith.

In Superman: Unchained, the story revolves around the characters of Superman and Wraith. Both are aliens from another world who were sent to Earth and are now using their powers to help mankind in their own ways. The difference is that each believes that their way is the right way.

Contrasting them, Wraith is employed by the U.S. government, taking his orders from them, while Superman is more of a rogue figure who answers to no government or authority.

According to Snyder, Superman: Unchained #6 will be the start of the “end game” and that the pieces “laid on the table come together to really begin the climactic fight.” This definitely seems to be where the series is heading as Superman and Wraith’s tactics and ideologies are very clearly at odds with one another.

Superman’s rogue status is making world governments very nervous. Wraith himself puts it better than anyone, “That’s going to eventually pit you against them – and me. It’s only a matter of time before you stand in the way of a bomb being dropped, of a war being fought… and when you do that, I’ll be there. I’ll be your enemy.”

Snyder expertly tackles all the important questions related to the Superman mythos in ways that most writers since The New 52 haven’t. Superman: Unchained deals with what it really means to be a hero and what it means to be human. For Superman, being Clark Kent seems like a no-brainer, but Snyder wants to question whether that concept of living amongst humans even works at all.

So what do you think? Does Superman always know what’s right? Or do some people know better than him, sometimes?

Make sure to catch Superman having another existential crisis about what it truly means to be a hero in Superman: Unchained the next few months.

SOURCE: NEWSARAMA