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Absolute Batman #1
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cyberghostface
"I wanted to do a story where it really is for my kids. Maybe not just yet, it's a little too violent and dark, but it's written for my kids. Batman always made me brave. Growing up in New York, I love the idea that he went up against nuclear war, like in The Dark Knight Returns. My anxieties were reflected in these books in the ’80s. And for him here, I want him to go up against things that feel unmovable, like giant civilians and systems that feel like you can't change them, so you just have to compromise, which is Alfred's point of view as a kind of mercenary coming to town. For Batman, though, he's this kid that does not believe that. He believes you go up and you bang your head against it over and over and over until you get it to change. So, it's a totally different take." -- Scott Snyder
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icon_ukScott Snyder and Joshua Williamson announce the upcoming "All In" Initiativeand
( More to come at SDCC but it's a start )
( More to come at SDCC but it's a start )
Did DC censor 'gay' Joker?
Feb. 4th, 2021 11:39 amcyberghostface
This isn't new information but it's something I recently discovered. Scott Snyder as you know has written Joker as being romantic towards Batman with plenty of innuendo. For the trade of 'Death of the Family' however the trades seem to have removed all of Joker's 'flirting'.
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Undiscovered Country #4
Dec. 29th, 2020 12:45 pmhistory79
"It's kind of fun. There's this guy that we both know who lives near Scott, so Scott knew him first, but he introduced me and we all got along. He's a retired associate with the CIA -- not an agent or operative -- but he's someone that's worked with the CIA for a long time. And I'm going to put "retired" in air quotes because he still seems to be pretty involved with those folks. So we got to talking to him and he's a super, super interesting guy and had an incredibly interesting career and we told him about the premise that we had for the story and he was like "Hey, you know that's something that we're actually doing!" and we were like "whaaat?" and he was like "There's a concept called Fortress America."
[It's] the idea that if the United States did have to seal itself off from the rest of the world -- no trade, no travel -- how would it do it? And it's not really a war plan but a logistical plan for what would we need to stockpile, how would we operate, how long can we do it before we had to open the borders again. What a resource he is; that led to a kind of real world versus the concept. And then Scott and I kind of spun out into crazy fish monsters and things like that which is very cool.
And, as part of it, he was like "Would you like to go and see CIA headquarters?" which was an incredible day; Scott and I got to go to Langley in Virginia. It was beautiful and inspiring just to see all the things that the agency had accomplished. And, at the same time, we got to go talk to DARPA -- the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency -- which is kind of like the American mega genius think tank where they speak of the technologies America will need in the next 30, 50, 100 years and then they start making those things. So it was a hugely eye-opening couple of days and our friend has still been a massive resource to us. But that's kind of how it all came out: Lucky connections and people being interested in the content we're working on; we're just really fortunate."
- Charles Soule
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