There's A Palace In Your Head, Boy.

Because It All Derived From Superman. I Mean, I Love All The Characters, But Superman Is Just This Perfect Human Pop-culture Distillation Of A Really Basic Idea. He's A Good Guy. He Loves Us. He Will Not Stop In Defending Us. How Beautiful Is That? He's Like A Sci-fi Jesus. He'll Never Let You Down. And Only In Fiction Can That Guy Actually Exist, Because Real Guys Will Always Let You Down One Way Or Another. We Actually Made Up An Idea That Beautiful. That's Just Cool To Me. We Made A Little Paper Universe Where All Of The Above Is True.

I Was Always Interested In Myths Growing Up. So, First I Got Into Some Roman Myths, Then I Was Interested In Norse, Then Celtic, Then I Started Spreading To All The Other Mythologies.

I Don't Like To Think Of My Readership As "fans," A Word Which Has Always Suggested A Kind Of Power Relationship I'm Uncomfortable With.

I Love 'batman.' I Love The Adam West 'batman.' I Love The Animated 'batman.' The Character Of Batman Can Encompass Any Interpretation, Which Is What Makes That Character So Brilliant And Why It's Survived So Many Different Media.

I Will Rise From The Darkness, Shining Like The Morning Star. Illuminated Woman Am I.