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One of my favourite issues I've ever written in my life - and one that had a huge impact on my life - was I did a Green Lantern issue for The Darkseid War crossover, that Geoff Johns wrote, with Doc Shaner and I. It was just a single issue and you know Geoff's like, "You have to do this and this and this." And yet, in that space, we were able to tell what I consider to be one of my best single issues. It's fun to be in that space, because you can really run there. You can do what Alan Moore did when he was given Crisis and Swamp Thing. You can make beautiful gold out of the thing. -- Tom King

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They're like, “You know there's going to be crossovers?” And I was like, “Bring them on, let's do it." Let's do it old school. Just the way I was raised, where something crazy comes along, we press pause on the story, and then we're in Acts of Vengeance. I didn't want to be that arrogant shitty writer who's like, “No, no, I'm too good for this. Let's go off and --” No, fuck that, I want to be like Walt Simonson. I want to roll with the punches and create something awesome. I want to be like Walt Simonson in most things. -- Tom King

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The challenge of Wonder Woman as a superhero writer is that she’s a warrior, she’s tough but, generally speaking, she doesn’t fight with violence, she has to find another way to triumph. The love she made throughout her life makes her triumph in this issue, that’s what it’s about. -- Tom King

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Tom King and DC Comics’ latest Wonder Woman issue is being decried as a “grooming operation,” but the issue also includes anti-Christian and anti-motherhood screeds. -- Actual Comicsgate quote

She’s fighting for equality, love, and all the things I was taught as a kid in the ‘80s that were the ideal things and that my mother was taught in the ‘50s and all the things my grandmother, who helped raise me, was taught in the ‘40s. I don’t see it as being political. I think too many people are associating the bad guy with themselves. I’m like “You’re not the bad guy! Just like you’re not Lex Luthor or the Joker, you are not the Sovereign.” -- Tom King

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I came up as an intern for Chris Claremont. That was where I first learned story when I was a kid. Every day I'd go into the room, and Chris was telling me how his stories worked, and it was a lesson. Chris' thing was for every superhero, what makes them strong makes them weak, and that's how we make them interesting. Rogue's power is also that she can't touch somebody — that being the classic example. Or Wolverine — he's savage, and he's always having to overcome his own savagery, and that creates the tension. That's always been a thing with me. Looking at Wonder Woman, I was like, "She is that character." -- Tom King

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When we have comic book readers coming into stores today, this younger generation, they're rebellious. They've seen a system that in some way — in a lot of ways — failed them. Between the economy and COVID, they've really had the shit thrown at them, and they're rebelling and trying to find a better way. I think Wonder Woman can represent that energy that they're bringing, that the modern comic book reader is into. -- Tom King

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I always say that Jon Hickman and I do the opposite thing in comics. Hickman takes these characters we thought we knew and turns them into gods. You read his writing and you feel like you’re reading the Greek gods talking about humans way far below them, and all these comic characters are just kind of blessed in ways we cannot understand. And I do the opposite. -- Tom King

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I did a mission statement for Wonder Woman. First time I've done that in any comic. It was a bunch of things. It was like, no sword, all lasso. Stuff like that. I have a 12-year-old daughter who wore Wonder Woman costumes and had a Wonder Woman rope and I just looked at her and [thought], "What does she love about this character?" I wrote all that stuff down. -- Tom King

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"Hats off to Bane, Batman’s original ‘Doomsday,’ who I love. But what Jorge and I are going for with Failsafe is a cold, unstoppable villain. Something fast and intense and otherworldly. They have connections to Batman’s past and are very single-minded in their mission: to kill Batman." - Chip Zdarsky

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"When DC approached me to write Batman, I immediately thought about things that could really challenge the character mentally, physically, and in terms of his relationships. Failsafe is his Doomsday." - Chip Zdarsky

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This special consists of reprints of the Batman: Urban Legends stories where Tim finally realises he's not exactly straight and accepts Bernard's invitation to go out on a date, as well as a new story, which includes Young Justice and Spoiler.

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