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When my editor sent me the first two images of Joker's daughter, I was struck by how confident she looked despite her boney appearance and horribly scarred face. So I starting thinking, how did Duela gain such confidence in a world that prizes beauty?

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Appearance Beauty Confidence Confident Daughter Despite Did Editor Face First Gain Her Horribly How Images Joker Looked Me Prizes Sent She Starting Struck Thinking Two World

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Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Against Artist Birds Clan Disciplined Francisco Go Her Herself Husband Journey Martial Men Personal Prey Pursue Quest San San Francisco She Sword Trained Vengeance

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Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Anger Arrow Been Changes Character Get Gone Got Green Guy Harder He Him His In The Past Just Justice Left-Wing Looked Lot Many Past Playboy Poor Rich Right-Wing Social Social Justice Then Through

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The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Arrow Being Blind Compensation Daredevil Dark Deeply Driven Forces Green His Inside Powers Religious Somewhat Things Traces Vulnerability Were

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The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'

~Ann Nocenti

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I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Altered Batman Characters Dead Dreams Experience Experiences Grief Like Losing Loved Loved One Might Much My Own Own Place Process See Situations Sleep State Strange Think Through Too Too Much Used Write Writers You Your Your Dreams I Think

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I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: About Aspects Books Characters Comics Concerns Days Hopefully In The Past Justice Know Made Moral More Much Only Past Putting Sense Sentiments Social Social Justice Too Too Much Tried Two Write I Tried I Write

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I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Arrow Brutal Feels Flashes Green His Like Lives Long New Occasional Past Remember Sense Somehow Someone Wanted Who

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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Bent Bloody Calculated Character Characters Clever Comics Creation Dark Days Explosive Feminist First Her Innocent Instinctual Liberated Made Mary Men Punishing Rather Response She Started Than Type Woman Women Writing

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It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

~Ann Nocenti

Topics: Always Amazes Books Bringing Close Comic Comics Different Different Kind Drawing Fat Films Here History How Japanese Kind Like Me Pages Very Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: January 17th, 1957

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