I just want to say thank you for writing the most influential characters in my life. I remember when Birds of Prey was on the WB and I remember the Bat family and how they all taught me to stay strong and try my hardest to do the right thing. Thanks.

Well, first, thank YOU, that’s a lovely thing to say.

Second, these characters meant the same things to me when I was a kid reading comics, I always felt that there was a message to me in them.

That’s why I always felt so happy to get to write them and try to make that message happen for others—it’s the characters, not the writer, really.

But also, it’s why I get so annoyed when they are mishandled!