I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

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.

Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon.