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Selina has some Paulette Goddard DNA in her.

Actually, when I did my initial rough for Firebug, I was thinking of Dwight Frye again, specifically with the severe haircut and makeup he had as Dr. Pretorious’ henchman Karl in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

Karkull, I just remembreed there are a few more Easter Eggs embedded in ‘…And Be A Villain’…. ’Yvonne Frances’ gets her name from actress Frances Drake and the character she played in the classic 1935 shocker MAD LOVE, Yvonne Orlac. ’Darryl Manning’ is somewhat suggestive of David Manners, who...

Personally, I think the casting and subsequent vocal performance of the great Paul Williams was the best thing about the BTAS Penguin. But otherwise, I think he kinda came off like a watered-down version of Tim Burton’s super-grotesque Penguin (which I wasn’t a big fan of in the first place). To...

(In my best ‘Samantha Stevens’ voice: ) WELLLLLL… I wish I could just throw the EMMYS writer under the bus and say she mis-quoted me, but I really don’t think that was the case here. I have an unfortunate tendency to ramble a bit and talk too fast when doing interviews, and my mouth sometimes...

Yeah, it’s a typo that we didn’t catch.

Yojimbo: I can’t say THE GAUNTLET was much of an inspiration on ’Moving Targets’, directly or indirectly, and can’t really imagine why it tripped your deja vu sensors. Oh wait — I think there’s a scene earlier in the movie (I haven’t seen THE GAUNTLET in years) where Clint naively agrees to...

Yes, the MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM and DR. X restorations are stunning. Of the two, I prefer WAX MUSEUM because I think it’s the more entertaining film all around — Glenda Farrell is a hoot as the wise-cracking lady news reporter — but DR. X definitely has some great, super-creepy stuff in it...

Onomatopeia made his first appearance in 2002, so I think that makes him the ‘most recent’ character to appear in the show…? In any case, whenever a character first appeared in the comics, the Golden, Silver, Bronze or Whatever Age, has no real bearing on whether or not we’ll feel like using...

Millicay: It’s probably fair to say the success of the rebooted/ reimagined Flash, GL and (to a lesser extent) Atom probably saved the entire genre of superhero comics from extinction. Despite that, I think there was significant pushback at the time from some older, long-time fans who preferred...

We’re intentially avoiding direct references to ’Real World’ figures and events of the 1940s (World War 2, Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, nuclear weapons, Stalin and the expansion of the Soviet Union, etc) in order to keep the time period somewhat vague. CAPED CRUSADER takes place in a elastic...

If we can think up a secret that‘s satisfyingly suprising enough, but doesn’t s*** all over Martha or Thomas Wayne….maybe. Honestly, it’s not high on our list of Things To Do. But maybe someday.

‘…genuinely curious about Alfred’s secret…’ ’…Nice to see Batman crack a little at the prospect of losing another parent…’ Sorry, my mind just went to very weird place. Don’t worry, whatever Alfred’s secret turns out to be, it WON’T be that he and Martha had a little too much sherry one lonely...

batmat: Papa Midnite sometimes wears an all-white outfit with tophat in the comics. Plus, James wanted him to look a bit like Geoffrey Holder as Baron Samedi in LIVE AND LET DIE. Yojimbo: William Hastings and Jorge Campos are just names we came up with in the Writers Room, and aren’t nods to...

batmat: The way we ended up playing it is that the shock of having been disfigured by Zito’s acid caused a psychotic break. If Harvey had a ‘good side’ and a ‘bad side’ before (as most people do, to various degrees) the acid incident split them and exaggerated them — his ‘good side’ became...