In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

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.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.

I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.