The Noir Hero Is A Knight In

She Doesn't Quite Chop His Head Off. She Makes A Pez Dispenser Out Of Him.

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.

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.

Mighty Cultures Never - Are Almost Never Conquered. They Crumble From Within. And Frankly, I Think That A Lot Of Americans Are Acting Like Spoiled Brats Because Everything That Isn't Working Out Perfectly Every Time.

A Man Without Hope Is A Man Without Fear.