In The Comic-book World, There Tends To

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.

We Live In The Shadow Of Crime With The Unspoken Understanding That We Are Victims.. Of Fear, Of Violence, Of Social Impotence. A Man Has Risen To Show Us That The Power Is, Ans Always Has Been, In Our Hands. We Are Under Siege. He's Showing Us That We Can Resist.

The Noir Hero Is A Knight In Blood Caked Armor. He's Dirty And He Does His Best To Deny The Fact That He's A Hero The Whole Time.

It's One Thing To Be Sitting At A Drawing Board, Alone In Your Home And Coming Up With A Fantasy Character, And Drawing Her Whichever Way You Feel Like Drawing, Then Dealing With A Real Performer. All Of A Sudden, Things Change. It's Amazing, In Working With Actors, How Much I Learn From Them And How Many New Lines Will Come To Mind Because Of Their Personality Or Their Strengths.

I Find That If Somebody Is Writing And Drawing A Comic Book, Planning It To Be A Movie And A Game At The Same Time Tends To Lead To A Pretty Lame Job.