Newsarama has a interview with writer Judd Winick:




Newsarama: Judd, when we talked during your Batman story arc last August, you said you'd be back on Batman after Tony Daniel's six issues. That apparently isn't happening, since Tony announced to Newsarama that he's the new regular writer. Was Red Hood the story you were going to tell when you returned to the title, and you guys just decided to make it a mini-series?




Judd Winick: No. Well, it was one story of a couple, I suppose. I could have made this into a story within the pages of Batman, although I think it works much better standing alone. But what happened was that I got busy working on the Red Hood movie, then I started working on the bi-weekly Generation Lost, and now Power Girl is gearing up. So it was the sort of thing where I kept pushing back when I would come back to Batman. And in truth, it's all about timing.


Nrama: But you left something open-ended...


Winick: Yeah, there's a story still floating out there, after that cliffhanger, that Dick Grayson found something that Bruce was hiding from him, and that story still sits out there. And given a few more months to get these projects up and going, we might come back to that. But it's not happening now.


But this story about Red Hood has been floating around in my head for years now. It's not just something I was going to do because I needed a story arc for Batman. This is something I really wanted to tell for a while.


Nrama: So what does this story cover?


Winick: This is the story in between. This is the story from when Jason Todd was resurrected to the time when he enters Gotham the first time as the Red Hood. We cover this section in the Batman Annual, which is the last chapter of the Red Hood trade at this point, in a couple of panels.


When we talked about this way back in the Batman Annual. We talked about doing 60 pages, and I said both publicly and privately that I could go 60 pages easily. There's so much story here to tell. Now, in this case, I get to break it down and break it out, more than I did before. So it's literally what happens from the time Jason Todd comes back to when he's back in Gotham as the Red Hood. It didn't happen overnight. And his plans weren't fully formed when he came back.


That's the story.


Nrama: And how long is that time period?


Winick: It's over the span of a couple of years.


Nrama: Where is Jason all that time?


Winick: All over the world.


To read the entire interview go here.