In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."

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.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

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

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.