When You Think Of What Americans Accomplished,

I Prefer To Write And Draw In The Privacy Of My Home And With Total Freedom And Then Take It To The Lion's Den.

In The World Of Comic Books, "troublemaker" Means Someone Who Has Some Sense Of Dignity.

I Grew Up On The Crime Stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, And Noir Movies Like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I First Showed Up In New York To Write Comics Back In The Late 1970s, I Came With A Bunch Of Crime Stories But Everybody Just Wanted Men In Tights.

People Are Attempting To Bring A Superficial Reality To Superheroes Which Is Rather Stupid. They Work Best As The Flamboyant Fantasies They Are. I Mean, These Are Characters That Are Broad And Big. I Don't Need To See Sweat Patches Under Superman's Arms. I Want To See Him Fly.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You Have Eaten Well. You've Eaten Gotham's Wealth. Its Spirit. Your Feast Is Nearly Over. From This Moment On...none Of You Are Safe.