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Radiation Interrogation: Sterling Gates
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Location: Blogs Atomic Fallout |
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| Posted by: Atomic Online |
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:40 AM |
 Interrogator General here, today we have a new hostage, Sterling Gates. We're going to find out how it feels being handed the reigns to the most important franchise in comic-dom and told to make it fly higher than ever before, AND how it feels to be on the team that is launching one of the biggest events in Superman history since the Death of Superman.
IG: So I have very little information on you. Frankly, I even question if you exist. Sometimes I think you are just a clever pen name for Geoff Johns. Your Wikipedia entry consists of two sentences. Tell me about yourself and how you got into the industry.
SG: Well, I think I exist, so therefore, I guess I do. And no, I’m not a Geoff Johns pen name; I’d have a much better page rate if I were.
As for getting into the industry, I owe a lot of that to Geoff. I moved to LA after college to become a writer. I was completely mislead by my college guidance counselor, who assured me that as long as I had a Film degree and moved to LA, I could easily land a job writing for film or television. Turns out, it’s, like, six, maybe seven times harder than that. So I moved out here and declared myself a writer and waited for the phone to ring.
Six weeks passed, and that phone never once rang. I’d blown through my savings on rent and vintage vinyl LPs from Amoeba Records and I started getting really desperate for a job.
But rather than spending a weekend sending out more resumes and applying to jobs, I went to a comic convention in San Francisco. I know, I know, I was trying really hard.
At that convention, however, I met Geoff Johns and from making that contact, I was able to get a job on a television show he was co-producing called Blade the Series. Once that show was kaput, he offered me a job working as his assistant while he did pre-production on a movie he wrote called Naughty or Nice.
It was there I met DC Comics editor Eddie Berganza, and after gushing to him about my lifelong love and devotion to DC Comics, he asked me to pitch him some stories. I pitched him a couple, he bought one, and I was up and running.
IG: So how was it, being the relative unknown working with two of the coolest guys on the planet? Did they haze you at all?
SG: To be perfectly honest, I don’t want to have to relive what they did to me for the sake of amusing you with the hazing story.
I still have nightmares from it, you know. Bad ones.
IG: So now that we have that. I just read your first issue of Supergirl and for the first time in a looooong time it made sense. Can you explain to our readers what the heck has been happening in her life with all the crystals and the whole wanting to kill Kal-El and stuff.
SG: A lot of that stuff with the crystals and “killing Kal-El” and all that is gonna be cleared up in Supergirl #35, which is New Krypton, Part 5.
As for what’s been going on in Supergirl’s life, we just saw her parents return in Action Comics and Cat Grant’s article “Why the World Doesn’t Need Supergirl” hit the stands of Metropolis. So she’s got a lot going on both internally and externally, lots of emotions bubbling to the surface.
IG: How is she fitting in to the New Krypton Story? Is she the new flamebird? There was a lot of talk about her wanting a new identity besides Supergirl? Come on, one of you guys has to give me something to work with.
SG: She’s an integral part of New Krypton. Just as Superman will be demonstrating what makes him so special in a world of 100,000 Kryptonians, Supergirl is going to learn what makes her a great Kryptonian in a world of 7 billion humans.
IG: Will Streaky be getting powers anytime soon?
SG: Good God, I hope so. I love that SuperCat.
IG: How many Flamebirds is too many. There is one from the Titans. Supergirl was Flamebird in One Year Later and then the one in the promo images. Three at once huh? Or can you tell me something?
SG: I say the more Flamebirds the better!
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