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" Superman is pretty much the way he was - you know - what he's always been. A lot of the Marvel characters are products of their time. I think Batman, as a character, has been able to adapt; he's pretty malleable. "

Brian Azzarello

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" I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people. "

" It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is. "

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" I think a lot of superheroes seem to have the same value system; they just have a different costume. They're all doing exactly the same thing. "

" This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there. "

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" I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things. "

" Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho. "

" When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it. "

" Noir deals with the disenfranchised: people who can't catch a break under normal circumstances. In noir books, you root for these people, but you know they are going to fail. That's what makes them so compellingly human. I can relate to that kind of stuff. "

" If you read any sort of, like, military general autobiographies or biographies, most of them never wanted to fight, you know? It's necessary. War is necessary. "

" One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could become Batman if you had a billion dollars at your disposal. There's nothing paranormal or superhuman or supernatural about that character. And I think his villains work the same way. You could be one of his villains just as easily. "