We sit down with one of the hottest writers in comics to talk Batman, Wytches, and more!

Scott Snyder is in the zone right now and every shot is falling.

Just because theyve become so familiar and so Halloween card-ish, you know?

We wanted to get back to what is primally frightening about witches.

So they wait there for you to come to them sort of with what you need from them.

Terminal illnesses, they can perform all sorts of miracles with these.

Who would you give them to save a loved one, to save yourself?

Who would you pledge to them?

I knew that we had the book.

Can you just talk a little bit about that as a setting?

Yeah, its actually the backwoods of Pennsylvania that inspired it (laughs).

So, weve been going there since I was a little kid…

Its a perfect setting!

We would go out there and scare each other.

You know 20 years, 30 years for me to come back?

You know, and then sort of they engender these questions that are a lot of fun.

And hes like, you wouldnt give them anybody, nobody would give anybody.

And he was like, youre evil!

What can you say about Jocks contribution to the creative process?

Building the story and the art, which is fantastic.

So for example, the angles he chooses are unstable at times to create a feeling of discomfort.

He constantly makes the story better, hes adding things to the script all of the time.

He likes to work from full script.

No, Im mean, Im kidding.

I would never take credit for the things that Jock does in that regard.

To me, Matt tells a full story through color.

There are some graphic and violent teases in the actions between the two girls when theyre fighting.

I dont want to give too much away, obviously, and I know you dont want to either.

But can you talk a little bit about the decision to go that far?

Its a very adult moment.

Yeah, its very brutal.

It is, and honestly its the one moment… To me, thats really what a nightmare is.

That terrible circularity where you just cant get out of there.

Thats where that comes from.

I was never terribly bullied as a kid.

But thats my absolute abject terror, that something like that will happen to my children to my son.

In that sense that thats what the witches rely on.

They rely on the uglier parts of our nature.

They know that well eventually come to them.

Whats the difference between putting your own stamp on something like Batman and something like witches and also vampires?

Obviously they all have their own fans, their own following and their own canon, if you will.

And while youre staying true to the core, try and create stories that are really personal.

So, for me for example, The Court of Owls is largely about growing up in New York.

With creator owned work, its almost a reverse.

How plot driven do you want to make it?

How much do you want to give the reader in terms of conventional tropes?

Its a balancing act.

What is absolutely true for this story?

Do you do it slower?

Do you do it faster than that?

Do you make it more bombastic?

Where as its almost the opposite.

Batman and those characters come with a built-in universal sort of appeal and its about making them yours.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, it does.

Obviously theres beenCourt of OwlsandZero Year, but have you written your signature Batman book?

The book that youll be remembered for.

Okay, so you dont want to think about your legacy?

SoZero Year, for us, to me that was the thing that I was proudest of.

And that its a very very personal story to me.

So many people out there…

I know so many writers have one great Batman story that they want to do.

Is it tough to write about his mortality in a way thats really affecting to the reader?

I know what you mean.

So for me, my Bruce does wrestle with these questions.

He got in to it to be something larger than a man, he wants to be an inspiration.

He wants to inspire fear in criminals and hope and rebellion in some ways in the populace of Gotham.

His body will fail, he will become old, he will lose the family members around him.

Hes real, hes flesh and blood to me my Bruce, in that way.

And what if all of the things that he did are undone in those moments?

And that fear, I think, is real for Batman.

So in that way, I think, thats his greatest strength.

Not to give away a sort of point of the story, but hes not immortal.

He might be immortal culturally, but he is a human being.

He doesnt have the power of immortality.

Wytches #1is available at your local comic book shop.

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