But I'm Not Trying To Convince Anybody

The American Conscience Died With The Kennedys.

"comic Book" Has Come To Mean A Specific Genre, Not A Story Form, In People's Minds. So Someone Will Call Die Hard "a Comic-book Movie," When It Has Nothing To Do With Comic Books. I'd Rather Have Comics Be The Vehicle By Which Stories Are Told.

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.

It Is More Raw And Unfettered And I'm More Likely Going Into Something You Could Call Extreme Cartooning. There's A Lot Of That In The Course Of 'holy Terror.' There Are Interludes Where There Are Pictures - Cartoon Pictures - Of Modern Figures And They Are All Wordless. It's Up To Readers To Put The Words In.

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