Writer Walt Simpson talks with CBR about his recent DC Wednesday comicstrip featuring an unusual duo. Catwoman and The Demon Etrigan.

CBR: How did you land on the team-up of Catwoman and The Demon?

WALT SIMONSON: [“Wednesday Comics” editor] Mark Chiarello called me up and asked if was interesting in writing one of the stories. And we kind of went around it a little bit. He had a couple of ideas in terms of what story to do. And eventually we settled on The Demon and Catwoman. I wanted The Demon because I think he’s just really cool and I’m an old [Jack] Kirby fan. What can I tell you? But I wanted to mix it up with something that wasn’t just your standard crossover. So we talked about different female characters at DC until finally, and Catwoman was one of the ones we were talking about, we decided on Catwoman.

As for Jason Blood, I gave him kind of a stately home over in England. I’m sure he had stately homes everywhere, so what the hell. But I thought with the artifact collecting and stuff he did that he would make a pretty good target for what Catwoman normally does, which is steal stuff.

I remember when it was announced, there was a lot of “What? What? What? Why are they mixing these guys up?” but actually, given what he did in his civilian life and what she did in her supervillainess identity, whatever you want to call it, they seemed like a good match.

CBR: Have Catwoman and Etrigan crossed paths before?

WS: Honestly, there’s been so much continuity at this point and so many years of it that I wouldn’t be prepared to say that it’s never happened. So all I can say is that I don’t know if it’s ever happened. And nobody I know knows that it’s ever happened before. It gave us a little, but different, place to start with the storyline. And I thought it would be fun. Mostly, my goal in doing stories is to be entertaining and try to find stories that would be entertaining. And ones that entertain me. And if they entertain me, I kind of hope they’ll entertain other folks.

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(Source - CBR)