You introduce something entirely new here with the Detectives Guild, which seems to hint at a larger tradition outside of Batman. Could you tell us a bit more about coming up with them?
Snyder: I just felt as though one of the things that we associate with Batman is this vast library of stories; he's probably the character with the most esteemed shelf of literature written about him. I think because of that, sometimes there's this sense sometimes that he's old and maybe he's done, like we've seen him in so many iterations and yet the thing that makes him so adaptable is that aside from the gadgets, the car, the caves, the planes, all that cool stuff, he's the World's Greatest Detective. And to be a detective is to pursue mysteries that sometimes are much bigger than yourself, and that means that you'll always have new stories to be pursued. And so I wanted to do something here that creates a tradition of that. Ultimately the tradition of detection is the tradition of being curious, of being human.
Detective Comics #1000 hits shelves on March 27.
