ZACK: It seems like the reliability of different narrators and their perspectives is going to be central to this series throughout, is that the case?
SPENCER: Yes, absolutely central to the series. To give a quick coda to what Evan said and to your last question: allowing us to have a journalist work their way through the series in itself introduces reliability questions, about the source, about even when a journalist is as thorough as Lois is, perhaps they’re still not operating with the full story. We’ll be returning to this again and again throughout the series.
One of the things about WildStorm’s history of these themes of untrustworthy governments, untrustworthy corporations, untrustworthy security figures, is that they haven’t quite had an encounter with a Lois Lane figure. Putting someone like Lois particularly at an early stage of her career — before we know her as the Lois we know from Superman and the rest of the DCU — it gives a unique opportunity for a flashback year one story to show how this character and several others hone themselves through this early crucible.