'Batman' will be a very different book in story and in tone than 'Batman & Robin.' Grant's book will be very Grant Morrison. I think each title has its own arc and own trajectory and a thing that it's going for. Not the one about possibly getting Bruce Wayne back in the cape and the cowl.

It is about this new take on this character, as well as a mystery that will spin out of it. I think we're all sort of in agreement with that. But that interested me more than anything else, really. We'll call it this 'new take' on Batman to keep things sort of simple. There wasn't one that really felt that interesting to me. But for me, there wasn't a story that I really wanted to tell. And coming back to it now, well, internally we've been talking about me coming back to 'Batman' with editorial since I left. That was a story that hadn't been told yet, as far as I was concerned. Was that part of the appeal of taking on this assignment? For us as creators, it's always been, 'How do we get a fresh take on this character?' The last time through, it was about Jason Todd. We just spoke with Greg Rucka about writing 'Action Comics' without Superman, and while you're writing 'Batman' with Batman, it's not Bruce Wayne. I can go out on a limb with that one without checking with DC. Across all the books and all the titles, Batman will be the same Batman. CBR: Is the Batman that you're writing in 'Batman' the same Batman that will be in Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely's 'Batman and Robin?'Judd Winick: Yep, Batman's Batman. In 'Batman' #638, Winick resurrected Jason Todd, the second Robin - who years earlier had been killed off by DC after polling readers using a 1-900 number - as an anti-hero to play off the Dark Knight in the storyline 'Under the Hood.'With Winick set to return to 'Batman' in June (with art by Ed Benes and Rob Hunter) after the Battle for the Cowl event concludes, CBR News sat down for an extensive interview with the always candid writer and within minutes, we were speaking about why he digs Jason Todd, what to expect during his run on 'Batman,' and perhaps more importantly - for his haters, anyways - what not to expect. This divide was never more apparent than during his run on 'Batman' during the time of DC Comics' Infinite Crisis event. An Eisner-nominated writer, Winick helmed critically acclaimed runs on both 'Green Lantern' and 'Green Arrow' and his stories - about a gay supporting character in the former and an HIV-positive superhero in the latter - generated national headlines. Judd Winick's run begins in June's 'Batman' #687Ībraham Lincoln is often misquoted as saying, 'You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot please all the people all the time.'And while the 16th President of the United States never actually uttered these words, Judd Winick certainly knows how he feels.

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