Catwoman isn’t a ‘joiner.’ She’s a solo operator. She isn’t naturally heroic; she’s fairly selfish. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and ‘mental defectives’ as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
I’m a huge lover of ‘Seven Samurai’ and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They’re fat books; it’s a whole different kind of comic that’s very close to their films. So I’m drawing from that history and bringing it here – bringing it to Katana. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
Catwoman has an awesome, iconic personality. It’s a blast to write her. You get her; she’s an archetype. You can just kind of put on the cat-suit. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
I don’t think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don’t want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I’ve written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it’s all there in Daredevil’s origin as to why he’d be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn’t have that kind of origin. In fact, he’s such a clean slate that he doesn’t even have an origin anymore. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow’s bow, but I’m not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman’s whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It’s not easy. Ann Nocenti Read Quote
