“Batman/Superman” #3, written by yours truly with art by Jae Lee and Yildiray Cinar, has gotten a bunch of very nice reviews. Read on for a few excerpts. And feel free to ask your local shop to hold you a copy or buy the book digitally at Comixology today!

Thanks to everyone who’s been reading and writing about the series! And thanks again to Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, who’s wonderful “When Clark Met Bruce” short story inspired the flashback sequences in this issue.

“If I had to sum up Batman Superman #3 in one word, it would be ‘otherworldly’, though words like sharp, vivid, imaginative, and (just plain) good are appropriate as well.”

— Jonah Lang, Broken Frontier

“I don’t know how Greg Pak knew that this was exactly what I wanted, or that, even for a jaded, frankly awful, cynical person like myself, it could crack my exterior, and give me the scene I most enjoyed reading all week, even though it should be incredible sentimental, but he made it work.”

— Josh Flanagan, iFanboy’s Pick of the Week

“This is a series you just become immersed in and nothing else matters. I can’t wait for the next issue.”

–Tony “G-Man” Guerrero, ComicVine

“… the entire creative team deserves a lot of credit for taking risks and creating an unpredictable and distinctive look at two of the DCU’s most important superheroes.”

–Jennifer Cheng, Comic Book Resources

“Buy this book.  This month’s issue gives us a delightfully fun and exciting exploration of the friendship between two of the world’s most iconic superheroes.   Batman/Superman is an impressive offering, doling out plenty of humor, heart and heroics.”

— Patrick Brennan,Taking Comic Books

Comicosity’s Honor Roll

iFanboy’s Best of the Week in Panels

The great Brett Booth, who just drew my “Doomsday” Villains Month book, is drawing the next story arc of “Batman/Superman,” starting with issue #5! And we’re doing the book sideways, ’cause we’re crazy like that!

Read the CBR interview.

“Batman/Superman” writer Greg Pak will write the “Justice League: Darkseid” one shot that’s been announced as part of DC Comics’ September Villains Month. Paulo Siqueira will draw.
Here’s an excerpt from the LA Times Hero Complex interview:

HC: What aspects of Darkseid are you most interested in exploring for this issue?
GP: He’s one of the greatest comic book supervillains of all time. He’s got an epic, mythic, cosmic back story that’s right up my alley. And his exact motivations and mind-set in the New 52 remain mysterious enough to present a huge opportunity for fun, risky storytelling. I’m having a blast.
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HC: After establishing yourself at Marvel over the last many years, you’re making your DC debut this month with “Batman/Superman” No. 1, and now you’re taking on one of the DCU’s biggest villains with Darkseid. Are these characters you’ve wanted to write, and how are you handling all this?
GP: I’m having a ridiculously fun time working at DC. It is indeed a huge blast tackling such iconic characters — particularly in the New 52, where I’ve been encouraged to think big and take risks while exploring the meaty emotional questions of what really makes these characters tick. It’s my favorite kind of writing and I couldn’t be happier. Superman and Batman were at the top of my list of DC characters I hoped to have a chance to write someday, so my head just about popped off when I was offered the “Batman/Superman” book. These are characters that I’ve been thinking about since I was 5 and it’s been incredibly fun diving into their worlds and minds and hearts and seeing Jae Lee bring them to life. And yes, I definitely have a list of other DC characters I’m itching to get my hands on. Without spoiling too much, I can say that in the last month, I’ve checked off three more names on that list.

By Greg Pak
Comic Book Resources’s Jeffrey Renaud recently interviewed writers Scott Lobdell, Andy Diggle, Scott Snyder, and yours truly about Superman.
Read Part I
Read Part II
The kind folks at the Robot 6 blog then picked this up as their Quote of the Day:

“What makes it compelling as a story and a character is his tremendous backstory, which sets up the character as someone who is different than everybody, but striving to help. That sense of somebody that is an ‘other,’ someone who doesn’t belong but is doing his best to do the right thing all of the time. That’s incredibly compelling and universal. All of us, no matter how much we feel complete, sometimes feel like we’re on the outside, feel like we’re alone, feel like we’re strange and different. That’s why the Harry Potter books and movies are so popular. That’s why the X-Men are so popular. That’s why just about every pop culture phenomenon you can think of is so popular.
It’s amazing how many of the stories we love to cherish explore that sense of being different. That’s a universal human condition. And the reason Superman, in particular, is so compelling is because he’s on the outside, yet he’s doing his best to help everybody. That moral core of the character is something that we all, deep down, want to aspire towards. It’s that struggle to do the right thing that is really compelling. And it’s not easy for him. I think that’s another thing that great Superman writers have explored over the years. This is a guy that — everything should be easy for him because he’s Superman and he can do anything, but he is still in a constant struggle to figure out what the right thing to do is and how to do it.”
– Greg Pak, writer of DC’s upcoming Batman/Superman series, explaining to Comic Book Resources what makes the Man of Steel such a compelling character

The “Batman/Superman” book I’m writing and Jae Lee is drawing starts in June. Please ask your local store to pre-order a copy for you today!