there was a time that the most heinous of lex luthors plans involved revealing supermans secret identity to the world but now with superman himself having revealed his double life as clark kent lex has got another plan in mind restore the secret of supermans human identity and make knowing it a psychic danger to the masses its all part of luthors nefarious project blackout scheme and it all goes down in december 27s action comics 1050action comics 1050 is written by phillip kennedy johnson tom taylor and joshua williamson drawn by mike perkins clayton henry and nick dragotta colored by frank martin and lettered by dave sharpe ahead of its release newsarama sat down with the trio of johnson taylor and williamson to get into what goes on with the characters in the issueread on to hear what they had to say but do so with cautionspoilers for action comics 1050 followgrant dearmitt for newsarama joshua last time you and i spoke we were talking about the end of dark crisis i want to start by asking whats the difference between writing a story like superman and one like dark crisisjoshua williamson dark crisis was a beast in comparison weve all worked on books that have huge ensembles that is a very different beast i was able to focus on this series i was able to just focus on clark and lex when i was doing dark crisis it was like heres the multiverse and all these other pieces all these different voices were involved with that one when we talked the other day i was talking about dick and slade and mr terrific on every page there is so much going on with superman it was fun to let it breathe more and focus on the voice of just those two characters and so i think thats the big difference for me between the two was being able to let this one breathe a lot more but i mean crisis events are their own beast scott snyder and i used to talk about this in metal and metal was its own beast theres a huge amount of information you expect to be on every single page whereas doing something like superman i was able to make it more about character than stuff happening nrama on the subject of characters philip your action comics run featured clark leaving jon on earth while he went off to save warworld now that clark is back how has their fatherson dynamic changedphillip kennedy johnson well they love each other as much as ever and superman values his relationship with his son as much as ever the years he lost with jon continues to be a tender spot for clark weve seen it reflected in a lot of ways the most obvious one reflected in the warworld saga is the deep connection that he forged with the kids that met there theyre roughly the same age as jon when he left earth clark