I Didn't Break Into Comics To Write

You Kind Of Worry For The Characters In A Way That You Don't Normally In Sci-fi, Because Sci-fi Tends To Be About The Ideas, And This Is About People.

Matthew Vaughn Phoned Me Up And He Said, "hey, Listen, The Movie Has Just Done Gangbusters. We've Got To Do The Second One." And I Was Like, "matthew, I Have No Second Book. Dave And I Haven't Done It," And He's Like, "you're Kidding!" He Said, "this Movie's Just Made $420 Million!" I Was Like, "...we've Got Nothing." So The Amazing Thing Was, Because We Own The Rights, We Still Get Paid And Everything, Which Is Fantastic.

The Ultimate [act] That Would Be The Taboo, To Show How Bad Some Villain Is, Was To Have Somebody Being Raped, You Know? I Don't Really Think It Matters. It's The Same As, Like, A Decapitation. It's Just A Horrible Act To Show That Somebody's A Bad Guy.

Batman: A Force Of Chaos In My World Of Perfect Order. The Dark Side Of The Soviet Dream. Rumored To Be A Thousand Murdered Dissidents, They Said He Was A Ghost. A Walking Dead Man. A Symbol Of Rebellion That Would Never Fade As Long As The System Survived. Anarchy In Black.

I Always Think It's A Mistake When You Actually Have To Set Books Aside And Actually Sit Down And Research Something. I Always Think They've Got To Come From Within.