Marc Waid: History Of Science Fiction And Superman Too.

Mark Waid:  On Kingdom Come:  To me was an all-star lineup. You and Alex Ross.  I mean, when I saw it, it was like blew me away.

Tony Tellado: Did you get a chance to see the CW the Arrowverse crossover?

Mark Waid: Oh yeah, and that’s a nice tribute. Well, I’ll go you one better is that I’m, I’m good friends with Mark Guggenheim, who was one of the producers on the thing and, and months and months and months ahead of time, he and I were having dinner. And he was saying he was letting me in on the secret.We’re gonna do this big crossover and we’ve got Brandon Routh and we’re not sure whether to put him in the Superman Returns costume or maybe the Kingdom Come costume. I said, no, no, you’re gonna put him in, I’m not giving you a choice. Like you’re gonna put him in the kingdom come, or else I’m gonna, I’m gonna, I’m gonna push you into traffic.So that’s, I got a, you know, a sneak look at that early on and, and boy, I was so thrilling to see that on the screen. Oh my God. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for eventually DC doing a movie of it.I think that would someday. I mean, the only reason we haven’t done  an animated feature so far is that you, we still, technology still hasn’t gotten to the point where you can really emulate the detail, the sort of Norman Rockwell classineness of Alex’s style. Someday, whether it’s in live action or through animation, they’ll crack that code and it’ll be, you know, DC’s endgame.Yeah, I know it’s the, the folks that work on the animated side. I know it’s on their list, and they would love to do it. But yeah, it’s like they have high standards and they really want to do it well, and they’ve done some great adaptations already, you know, and they and they keep doing it, so it’s really amazing.

What do I wanna watch that unfathomable to us. We were lucky to get Nicholas Hammond to Spider-Man, you know, I remember that right.So it’s, it’s amazing to me, and I, you know, will that, will that trend continue forever?Probably not, but let’s just enjoy it while we can. Let’s just enjoy the fact that right now the nerds won.You know, we, we rule the earth, uh, and those of us who used to have to be embarrassed to be opening need to be reading a comic book in public next to a pretty blonde girl on the bus, you know, we don’t have to be that way anymore. It’s great.She might be reading it too. 
It’s like that’s one thing I’ve noticed is that boy fandom’s gotten a lot better looking in. That’s extraordinarily true, yes, yeah, and families too, which is really amazing to me.The cool and cosplay plays a lot of into that which I, I love. I’m not, I’m not a cosplayer.I don’t, you know, but I salute the energy that goes into it and it’s so cool to see it. Conventions, you know, kids running around as impulse or, or other young characters and, uh, you know, and like you said, families, making it a family thing because it wasn’t, I mean, my dad gave me my first comics and my dad didn’t ever not support my hobby, but it wasn’t like something we shared. Oh, it’s, it’s, it’s totally amazing.

On Superman The Movie:  That movie changed that movie changed my life. I mean it quite literally changed my life.I, I’ve told this story before, but it was January 26, 1979 is when I saw it. Um, I like Superman at the time, but I like Batman and I like Spider-Man. I like magic.I liked, you know, snow cones. I liked a bunch of different things.I went to that movie.And At that time in my life through, and this is not in any sort of a slight to the adults in my life.I think everybody was trying to do their best, and some of this was just on me and my own emotional problems, but I was at a low point. I was at a like a near suicidal low point in my life where I felt like nobody cared about who I was or what or cared about me at all, and I went to see that movie.And I came out of that movie thinking whatever the rest of my life is gonna be, it’s gonna have to do with Superman. And it wasn’t until I get to be an adult that I was really able to put two and two together, but it’s obvious in retrospect that, you know, I went in there thinking nobody cared.Superman cares about everybody. Superman is everyone’s friend, and yes, I know it’s a fictional character, but it still meant something. It still touched a nerve in me when I was young and it continues to touch that nerve in me to this day.