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I like being a cult figure.
I'm a Cubs season ticket holder.
Painted talking heads is just boring.
I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.
I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.
My mother would make a good Wonder Woman.
Everybody's got scars. It's not so unique.
Characters with questionable morals are sexy.
I'm happy with the way '100 Bullets' ends terribly.
I like alleys. They are the backdoor to everything.
Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.
Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.
Wonder Woman is not horrible. Her villains should be.
I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.
Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.
I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.
DC characters are from a different era than Marvel characters.
I think the Joker resonates with people as much as Batman does.
When [Bruce Wayne] masturbates, its better than when I have sex.
To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.
I didn't really like superheroes. I liked monsters and war comics.
The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally.
I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.
Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.
I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.
I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.
'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.
People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.
One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
Man, I think mistakes - that's what makes us distinct human beings. Those imperfections.
I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.
When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.
If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.
Denny O'Neil did some great things with Joker - I thought Greg Rucka used him really well in 'Gotham Central.'
Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.
I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.
These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.
'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'
Believe it or not, but 'White Heat' and 'Little Caesar' keep dancing around in my brainpan while I'm writing 'Moonshine.'
When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.
Like, why is Batman so relevant? It's because he gets reinvented constantly. There are a lot of stories you can tell with that character.
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.
We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.
Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.
I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.
I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.
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.
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.
The metro section of the newspaper every day is full of stuff I can use. It's the greatest inspiration for me because it's full of endings. That's where the ends of stories show up.