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" I think Batman has the Wolverine problem. I think he's overexposed. "

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" You know how a nonlethal weapon is supposed to work? A nonlethal weapon works on the basis of three things: It needs to deter, and that's normally done through pain, and that pain creates a byproduct, which is fear. "

" Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face. "

" Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about. "

" The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written. "

" Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. "

" I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting. "

" The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. "

" When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint. "

" I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements. "

" To me, the joy you're going to get in a 'Punisher' story is watching him punish incredibly wicked people. Now, if you can add to that an emotional content, wonderful. "

" I love liminal characters. I love these characters that are outside and enter and consequently are perpetually outsiders, and who hold themselves to a higher standard. "

" Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't want to get hurt. Pepper spray hurts. You don't want to be sprayed. That's why it's a useful deterrent as a nonlethal weapon - I'm not advocating spraying people randomly. "

" Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting. "

" Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true. "

" DC are playing catch up with Marvel because of things like 'The Avengers' breaking six hundred million domestic. "

" The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story. "

" It's funny because you know the novel process: you get the drafts, you get the galley, and then you get the galley proofs. You have opportunities to change things all along. But the further along in the process you go, the more careful you have to be in making those changes, and the smaller the changes have to be. "

" I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people. "

" Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously. "

" I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it. "

" I just know that if you make a Superman movie you can't take kids to, you've done something wrong. "

" Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something. "

" I write characters. Some of those characters are women. "

" I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take. "

" I am the product of Denny O'Neil in many ways, I carry forth a lot of what Denny instilled in me. "

" What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. "

" Punisher is scary; he should be scary. "

" When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it. "

" Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it. "

" I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book. "