vivvav asked: Did you plan the Death of the Family tie-in with Scott Snyder, or do you just come up with the whole thing yourself? How much discussion is there between you two?

It’s some of both…Scott Snyder is a RIDICULOUSLY generous and helpful collaborator. I swear, a lot of times, ego gets in the way with these things. NEVER with Scott. ALL he cares about is getting the best story, and he wants us to tell our own stories our way.

I sound like I’m just bullshitting here, I imagine. I assure you, I am not. That’s who Scott is, and that’s why I would pretty much take a bullet for him.

In the case of DotF, he had a very big, complicated outline for BATMAN, and some thoughts for other books, to be used or not, as needed. But definitely we were to come up with our own stories, our way. We coordinated with Scott and his editors, to make the events in each book sync up, of course.

But my DotF story is pretty much all mine, just using Scott’s outline as a wonderful, fertile springboard.

The crossovers in the bat-books really are a joy to work on, everyone works together and it’s lovely. I’ve had a few where it was more difficult and tricky, that’s not the case, here. Because it’s writer-driven, not an editorial mandate.