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CBR News: In the "All-New Batman: The Brave and The Bold," you get to write the Caped Crusader as the lead each and every month. Are you a long-time fan of Batman?
Sholly Fisch: Having grown up in the '60s and '70s, I was a kid at the height of Batmania. I wore my Batman mask, built models of the Batplane and Batboat, collected Batman trading cards, and slept in Batman pajamas. In fact, I have a vivid memory of crying at a friend's house when his mother wouldn't let us watch a new episode of "Batman," starring Adam West, while we ate dinner.
So, yeah, you could call me a long-time fan. I'm very grateful to my "All-New" editors, Scott Peterson and Chynna Clugston-Flores, for giving me the chance to write Batman every month. It makes my inner five-year-old very, very happy.
What is it about Batman that you think generates so much interest from young fans? I mean, he doesn't have Superman's strength or Flash's superspeed, to them isn't he just a guy with gadgets?
He's just so cool. For me, I guess it's always been that he knows everything, can do anything… but he's human, which makes him more attainable. Personally, I wasn't born on an alien planet like Superman – or at least, that's what my mother tells me – and although I really was struck by lightning once, I didn't walk away with super-speed. But give me 20 years of training and focus, plus a few million dollars, and maybe – just maybe -- I could be the Batman.
Batman is known as the Dark Knight. How do you write a comic for kids if your main character is so dark? Do you have to lighten him up?
Well, yes and no. There have been so many incarnations of the character over the years that it kind of depends on what your reference point is. Since this series is based on the "The Brave and The Bold" TV show, I'm following mostly in the same vein and falling somewhere in the middle – more straight than, say, the camp Batman of the '60s, but a whole lot lighter than Frank Miller's "Dark Knight." Like the show, I expect that we'll probably mix up the stories he appears in a bit, with straighter stories in some issues and more over-the-top stuff in others.
Check out the entire interview here.
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