A Gun Is A Liar's Weapon

In A Way, 'sin City''s Designed To Be Paced Somewhere Between An American Comic Book And Japanese Manga. Working In Black And White, I Realized That The Eye Is Less Patient, And You Have To Make Your Point, And Sometimes Repeat It. Slowing Things Down Is Harder In Black And White, Because There Isn't As Much For The Eye To Enjoy.

I Thought Daredevil Was Kind Of Cool Because He Couldn't Do Anything. I Mean, He's Blind. It Wasn't That He Could Fly. His Major Power Was An Impediment. So I Was Intrigued. When I Took Over He Was Kind Of Like Spider-man-lite, But I Was Able To Project A Lot Of My Catholic Imagery Onto It. And I'd Always Wanted To Do A Crime Comic.

The Most Questionable Thing I Did Was Make Superman A Government Agent. If This Had Been A Superman Story, I'd Never Have Done That - And I Know That, Because I Have A Superman Story I Want To Tell Someday. In This Story, Batman Was The Hero, So The World Was Built Around Him.

A Screenwriter Is Much Like Being A Fire Hydrant With A Bunch Of Dogs Lined Up Around It.

I Was Always Into Noir. When I Lived In Vermont I Was Drawing Stuff That Looked Like An Amateur Doing 'sin City'. When I First Got To New York I Was Swiftly Informed That They Only Did Guys In Tights.