On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row.

Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

If I know what something's about, and I can always have that touchstone, I feel like I can reach for really ridiculous humor and also go really dark in terms of the things I'm afraid of.

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.