Of all the Superman characters featured in the New 52 relaunch, Superboy was the one that received the most drastic overhaul. After being under the pen of Scott Lobdell for nearly two years, the character switches into the hands of Deathstroke, Shadowman, and Luther Strode scribe Justin Jordan as of tomorrow's issue #20.

I caught up with Jordan about his plans for the character -- and, by association, his plans for Krypto.

Well, there is the RB Silva art, which would be enough for me. But I guess my sales pitch would be that we’re starting in a new, fairly straightforward, fairly self-contained direction. So if you like fun stories about people with superpowers making life difficult for other people with superpowers, this would be the place.I think it’s interesting, in general, to see Superman without the benefit of having been raised by the Kents. And that’s probably the appeal of the character since he stopped being young Superman.This version of Superboy is interesting because, while he’s intelligent and educated, he’s really only a couple of months old. So we have this massively powerful kid who is experiencing the real world for the first time. And I thought that was an interesting thread to play with – what would modern life seem to someone who was, in a way, raised by seeing these things without experiencing them. It’s a bit like Being There, with less mental disability.That’s a complicated question. The first storyline we’re doing actually interacts with the stuff going on in the Super-books, but it’s not a crossover. If you read all the books, you get a clear picture what’s going on, but you don’t have to. Superboy and the reader will have the same knowledge.The realization that he needs to be something other than what’s been told he is – a living weapon. So he wants to make the world a better place, and doesn’t want to wait to do it. So he’s not waiting for villains, he’s seeking them out. This relates back to the alienness of the character – there’s a lot about the modern world we simply accept because it’s the context we were raised in. Superboy wasn’t, and has the power to do something about it.Sure. I mean, that’s the fun, right? He’s inexperienced and somewhat foreign to the culture he’s trying to change, and so he’s going to run up against resistance. And sheer physical power doesn’t solve much – he could go take down a dictator, but then what? That doesn’t instantly make a paradise.And part of the story is him establishing those limits for himself. Why shouldn’t he, say, pop Lex Luthor’s head like a ripe tomato? He needs to figure that out. And no, I’m not hinting about anything with Lex. Just an example. I promise. Definitely.A lot. I love Krypto. I especially love this version of Krypto, although I would, since it’s largely me writing him. But you know the direwolves in Game of Thrones? Yeah, this Kyrpto is way closer to Ghost than Clifford the Big Red Dog.There’s new or newish villains from the second issue in, and the first issue introduces some established-but-obscure villains. And the big bad of the first arc is a Superman villain you’re probably (well, hopefully) not expecting in the New 52.Man, this answer is going to sound cheesy, especially in light the Man of Steel trailer, but the real answer is hope. Superman is hope. Hope that the better angels of our nature can win. I don’t believe that power corrupts, I think power reveals, and I think Superman is an example of that – he has the power of a god, but he’s all the best in man.Read my book? Er… Krypto is awesome?

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