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...author had to leave. "In any kind of sane universe," Gaiman says, "I would be hanging around on the set saying, 'This is mine, this is cool.'" Instead, in the morning, the British-born Gaiman will climb on a plane - where he'll finish writing an article on Superman - for the Addams Family?style house near Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has lived since 1992. There he will knuckle down to his screen adaptation of Charles Burns' teen-horror, graphic-novel series Black Hole. Then, Gaiman must deliver the first of six issues of The Eternals, a resurrected Marvel Comics creation...
...SUPERMAN RETURNS...
...CHALLENGE The problem with Superman is that he doesn't have enough problems. He can pretty much do anything-dude has superbreath-and apart from the kryptonite thing, he's pretty much invulnerable. And oh, my stars, what a do-gooder. Where's the inner conflict? Or the outer conflict, for that matter? He's not dark and troubled like Batman or Wolverine, or cute and clueless like Spider...
WHAT'S NEW You can't openly monkey with the Superman mythology--there are probably federal laws against it-so to reinvent him director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, the X-Men movies) went subtle, quietly tweaking canonical story lines to roil Supe's placid emotional waters. When the movie opens, Big Blue has been gone for five years, and he gets back to find that Lois Lane has a new guy (!) and a kid (!!). Now, wouldn't that ruffle your spit curl...
...BUZZ The set radiated bad p.r.: there were rumors of reshoots and wild budget overruns (the reported cost is a mighty $185 million). And do comic-book fans really care if Superman is a lover as well as a fighter? New guy Routh fills out the blue tights, and Spacey looks like a deliciously loony Lex Luthor, but Clark Kent might need to find a new beat. -By Lev Grossman...