Magneto’s an old terrorist bastard. I got into trouble – the X-Men fans hated me because I made him into a stupid old drug-addicted idiot. He had started […]
When I was doing The Invisibles, I was spending all my money from Arkham Asylum doing all the things I’d never done as a Presbyterian boy. You freak […]
In Kathmandu there’s this temple with 365 steps, one for each day of the year, and apparently if you can go up in a single breath, you’re guaranteed […]
I identify with the Joker to a certain extent–at least the way I write him, which is as this cosmic fool. He’s Batman’s perfect opposite, and because of […]
When I was writing The Invisibles, I thought, If I’m going to be sitting in the house writing all day, then on weekends I want to look like […]
William Moulton Marston, the guy who created Wonder Woman, was a noted psychiatrist. He’s the guy who invented the polygraph, the lie detector. He was one of those […]
Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional […]
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he’s too powerful; you can’t give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, […]
I prefer to work out my thoughts on the page and to challenge my own certainties by creating characters who disagree with me.
I really think comics are more fun when they play to their strengths, and do the things that movies can’t do, and go to places in the imagination […]
What do I think about Ben Affleck? Let’s see the performance. Nobody believed Michael Keaton could do Batman and he did a great job… we’ve seen him as […]
I plan my stories very, very carefully, years ahead of completion but I l do like to let chaos and dirt into the proceedings, scuzz it up a […]
Kids understand that real crabs don’t sing like the ones in The Little Mermaid. But you give an adult fiction, and the adult starts asking really fucking dumb […]