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- I do think that there's a
core vulnerability to Batman,

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and I'm gonna be bringing my
own take and my own spirit,

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but I'm definitely
gonna be building off of

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what we've been exploring
with the character

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over the last few years.

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I try not to think of it in terms

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of what hasn't been done with Gotham City.

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When you're dealing with a character

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that's existed for 85 years,

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you've seen a lot of things done

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from different angles and all that,

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but what you wanna bring to Batman

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is the Batman that exists in your head.

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Whenever I look at my own future,

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it's always a very scary question,

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of what impact do you
wanna leave on the world?

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And Batman is always a solution
to a very immediate problem.

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It's still all about stopping
a mugger in an alley,

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but you know, there are
bigger questions to ask.

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And the horror comes from
asking those questions.

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And then it also come from
aesthetic and monsters

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and like big, crazy, gothic architecture

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and all of the amazing things

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that I'm talking to Tony Daniel about

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that we wanna bring into the series.

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But when I talk about
the spirit of the book

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and talk about it as
a horror action title,

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it's, I want that kind of creeping dread

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but I want the thrilling fun—

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but I want that thrilling fun

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to have a strange horror quality to it,

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because I think that that's always there

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in my favorite takes on Batman.

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Wonder Woman was a very
intimidating character

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to crack into.

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And I've been writing her now
for the last year and a half,

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almost two years, on Justice League Dark.

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She is a character you can write wrong.

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She's a character that
if you try to put her

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in a scenario and make her
do something she wouldn't do,

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it reads wrong on the page

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and it makes it obvious

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that you've just made
a bad story decision.

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You always need to keep her at center.

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She needs her stature.

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She has a presence when she enters a room.

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And there's also a way that
everyone reacts to her.

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And there's a real power to Wonder Woman.

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She's one of my favorite characters.

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As a queer creator, I grew up

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not really seeing myself represented

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in the superhero stories that I read.

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You know, I love big, muscular superhero story

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as much as the next superhero fan,

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but it was just, it was
always disheartening.

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And so, that was something
that went in my Detective run,

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in particular, having Kate Kane, Batwoman,

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as Batman's equal in that story.

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That was a really important thing for me.

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And making sure that when
I create new characters

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people like the 13-year-old James

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who was opening up Batman
comics for the first time

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and wondering if he existed
in the same world with Batman.

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I never want a kid to
have that same question.

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