The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.