"Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me"
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Rush is doing what great actors often do offscreen: treating pop mythology like repertory theater, where every role has a lineage and every costume comes with inherited meaning. His delight isn’t really about canon trivia; it’s about the sudden electricity you get when two supposedly separate cultural “universes” touch. One obscure footnote - Tomar Re, a Green Lantern alien, once positioned as an envoy to Krypton - collapses brand boundaries and makes the whole superhero ecosystem feel older, weirder, and more interconnected than the clean studio timelines suggest.
The intent reads as both fan-curiosity and professional curiosity. Rush signals he’s not just name-checking Superman for points; he’s responding to the craftsmanship of shared mythmaking. “That was fascinating to me” is actor-speak for: here’s a backstory hook, a motive engine. If Krypton isn’t only a Superman setting but a crossroads in a broader galactic diplomacy, the tragedy of Krypton gains new political texture, and characters adjacent to it inherit gravitas.
There’s also a soft meta-joke embedded in the anecdote. In today’s IP economy, executives market connectivity as a premium feature; Rush is captivated by a time when connectivity happened accidentally, through messy editorial overlap and imaginative play rather than strategy decks. The subtext is a quiet preference for the analog era of comics, where continuity was less a corporate mandate than a side effect of writers having fun. His fascination is a small argument for serendipity in storytelling - and a reminder that “shared universes” used to be discovered, not announced.
The intent reads as both fan-curiosity and professional curiosity. Rush signals he’s not just name-checking Superman for points; he’s responding to the craftsmanship of shared mythmaking. “That was fascinating to me” is actor-speak for: here’s a backstory hook, a motive engine. If Krypton isn’t only a Superman setting but a crossroads in a broader galactic diplomacy, the tragedy of Krypton gains new political texture, and characters adjacent to it inherit gravitas.
There’s also a soft meta-joke embedded in the anecdote. In today’s IP economy, executives market connectivity as a premium feature; Rush is captivated by a time when connectivity happened accidentally, through messy editorial overlap and imaginative play rather than strategy decks. The subtext is a quiet preference for the analog era of comics, where continuity was less a corporate mandate than a side effect of writers having fun. His fascination is a small argument for serendipity in storytelling - and a reminder that “shared universes” used to be discovered, not announced.
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