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1. One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
2. Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can’t catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That’s what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff.
3. Hollywood, they love everything, but they move like molasses. They’ll option anything — the worst idea in the world will get optioned just because they want to keep the other person from getting that idea.
4. Once you’re president, there’s blood on your hands — there’s no way around it.
5. DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.
6. It’s depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, ‘Let’s die in battle, in glory’ idea, because that’s just the genre we’re in. But that’s not what war really is.
7. Denny O’Neil did some great things with Joker — I thought Greg Rucka used him really well in ‘Gotham Central.’
8. I really like language — and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.
9. I’m kind of a graphic novel ambassador.
10. Everybody’s got scars. It’s not so unique.
11. When I was writing about Gotham in ‘Broken City,’ I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
12. Characters with questionable morals are sexy.
13. I know ‘100 Bullets’ is not what traditionally people think of as comics.
14. If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It’s necessary. War is necessary.
15. To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.
16. Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.
17. Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.
18. If there’s nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there’s no desire to see what happens.
19. People have told me that the dialogue in ‘100 Bullets’ is very realistic. I don’t agree.
20. My mother would make a good Wonder Woman.