A Quick But Rich Interview With Scott Snyder At SDCC

I was lucky enough to briefly sit down with Scott Snyder on behalf of BNP and ask him about all the interesting things he’s doing with Justice League. It was just a quick five-minute interview, but Scott gave me more than I could have hoped for in the short time we had. Morgan: Your Justice League has a pretty diverse cast. Why did you choose this lineup of characters? Scott Snyder: The thing that really was the driving force for me was sort of the emotional tapestry of it all. I wanted a character that would be a great entry point. I knew what Grant (Morrisonn) was doing with Hal and where the role would be for Hal at that point so I wanted to bring in John Stewart because to me, that combination of being somebody that has tremendous baggage because of what happened in Cosmic Odyssey and Xanshi dying, you know, who else has been responsible for the death of a planet? There’s so much emotional richness there, and sadness in a character that I want to bring in to remember his heroism in ways that he hasn’t seen in a while. So that’s why I picked a character like him. And Kendra, who is a new character (on the team) as well. I wanted a character who essentially suddenly doesn’t understand her own mythology anymore. And as many lives as she’s had, she’s a complete mystery to herself. She starts to realize that maybe there’s a design to the lives that she’s been woven through. Maybe there’s a reason these lives happened. And Martian Manhunter, the third character that’s been awa…