SupermanHomePage.com has recently conducted an interview with writer Kevin J. Anderson on his up coming novel "Batman and Superman: Enemies & Allies" and the reasons he chose to set the story around their first meeting during the 1950's...

SHP: Why did you choose to set your novel in the 1950s instead of in the current era?

KA: I wanted to draw these people not just as icons, but as real characters. Batman/Bruce Wayne is a lost soul, scarred by his tragic childhood and yet forced to play the aloof and irresponsible playboy; Clark Kent/Superman is an alien but desperate to fit in; he has the powers to save the world, and yet in this era every portrayal of aliens is as a nasty, bloodthirsty invader. The 1950s, with its optimism and its paranoia, seemed to be the perfect era for costumed superheroes and grand conflicts. For the first time humans discovered nuclear technology that really could destroy all life on Earth -- which, to Kal-El is an eerie parallel to his realization of what must have happened to his world of Krypton. I felt it really had a resonance to set it in the Fifties, and it seemed much less interesting, almost a cliché, to set it in the modern day.

SHP: Is the relationship between Superman and Batman reflective of the comics of the 1950s era when they were good pals, or the more modern take where they are diametrically opposed, but come together because they have the same goals?

KA: The latter. Their personalities are diametrically opposed, with completely contradictory attitudes of Law and Justice. They have a natural suspicion of each other, but circumstances will force them to become allies.

For the entire interview click here...

(Source - SupermanHomePage.com)