Man of Steel has "Parallels" to General Zod's Villains Month Title

During an interview with Greg Pak, whose Batman/Superman #1 will hit the stands from DC Comics on [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Villains Month Zod #1

During an interview with Greg Pak, whose Batman/Superman #1 will hit the stands from DC Comics on Wednesday and who will write arguably the three most power-packed Villains Month books in September, Cosmic Booknews asked Pak whether Man of Steel influenced his script for the General Zod one-shot. His answer? No...but that doesn't mean there aren't similarities. "I actually finished the script a couple of weeks before I saw the movie, so the movie didn't directly influence the story or characterization," Pak said. "But after seeing the movie, I think there's some nice parallels there -- they did some great things with Zod that resonate pretty nicely with some of the elements we're introducing in our book." He also noted that "Villain stories can be enormously fun and scary. We've got some deliciously horrifying twists in here that we think you're going to love. Also, we're doing some surprising new things with these villains that could only be done in the New 52, so this is a great place to be surprised and get excited about what comes next," and that he thinks the books he's working on look great as well. "Ken Lachley is drawing the Zod book. He's bringing a great, jagged savagery to some key images in there that are blowing my mind," the writer said.

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