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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.

What I Want To Bring Back To Superheroes With This Project Is A Sense Of Play. Things Have Gotten So Dreary. The Heroes Have Gotten So Ugly That Even Their Muscles Have Muscles.

I Moved To New York And Was Told, "go Back Home. We Don't Need You. Go Pump Gas. You're From Vermont. We've Got No Use For You. You're Not Drawing Guys In Tights." So, I Learned How To Draw Guys In Tights, And I Put Them In As Many Crime Situations As I Could.

I'm A Spoilt Brat. I Thought I Was Just Going To Walk In And Make Movies. But I'd Been My Own Boss For So Long That All Of A Sudden To Be Facing A Roomful Of People Who Were Niggling Over Every Little Scene... I Just Thought I'd Go Back And Draw My Comics And Have A Happy Life.

Gotham City. Clean Shafts Of Concrete And Snowy Rooftops. The Work Of Men Who Died Generations Ago. From Here, It Looks Like An Achievement. From Here, You Can't See The Enemy.