>From bringing him back to life to bringing him back from incarceration, you've done a lot with Todd. Was he a favorite Batman character of yours before you started writing him?
>Before I didn't have any particular love or interest in the character at all really. I read him just like anybody else, and when he died-well, I lied in one interview, because I thought it made for a better ending: they asked "Did you call in? What did you call in for?" and I said I called in for him to live. But that's a lie, I wasn't even one of the people who called in, I think I actually bought it as a trade when it was done. So, it wasn't that I had a burning desire to bring Jason Todd back. It was more about-when Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee did "Hush," and they revealed that Hush was Jason Todd, I thought it was just a great, great idea. It gave the story someplace to go, it was terrific, I was excited about it-and then it turned out to be Clayface. And I felt like, aww. But you know what, I still say it’s a great story. So when it got to be my turn, I wanted to pursue that story I thought about when they first did the reveal its Jason Todd. Just when I get the idea that, you know, Hush is Jason Todd, I'm like oh god, it’s great! [Batman's] greatest failure has come back from the grave! With everything he's ever trained him to do being used against him! It's terrific, its an opera, I love it. That was really the suggestion that inspired me to make that story. And since then I spent a couple of years doing the "Under the Hood" arc, and then we did the [animated "Under the Hood"] movie, which was fun too. And here we are again. I like it. I like him. And I'm quite pleased by how many readers have taken to him in an odd way.
Speaks volumes about the current state of Jason Todd’s character ever since UTRH dropped.