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.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

I had to fight for wingdings. Batman needs to curse sometimes!

This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?

Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.

With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.

[Bruce] sees a lot of himself in [Batman], you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to [Duke's] parents, who are now Joker-ized*. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.