"I think it is very important, because he is trying to find out, basically, what Midnighter means. To..."

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I think it is very important, because he is trying to find out, basically, what Midnighter means. To do that, he is breaking free of his established precepts and established lifestyles. He will be meeting a new social circle, he’ll be meeting new villains, new types of challenges, that are still very pop culture and weird science and sort of gritty, but also street-based. When he first showed up in the ’90s, he was homeless, sleeping in trash cans, and helping people where he could. I think getting back to that idea, that he really is a hero of the people — inspired by the Shadow. Too often people mention that he’s an anti-Batman, and I think there’s a lot of differences between him and Batman. I’d like to get back to the roots of the character that way — him finding ways to help people, change that he can see, instead of this macro-scale type of thing that he got into with the Authority and the Stormwatch, which even he says is not really his style. Especially in the New 52 “Stormwatch,” where he openly says that he’s for the little guy.

He has to be on his own to create that myth. I think that goes back to his roots as being related to Batman, as being related to the Shadow. When he’s connected to these other movements — he needs to be a movement himself. Midnighter has to be that signal. In a world where you’ve established superheroes, where you’ve established that if you’re a criminal in the DCU there’s every chance that Batman is going to show up and break your jaw, there’s every chance that Green Lantern is going to put you in a giant, green basketball hoop or something — he needs to establish his myth, so that when he shows up, and you see that coat and you see that helmet, you know that you stepped off the world. It is something totally different, and you’ve crossed the line, even within the DCU, that there’s really no going back from. He has to break free of the rules of these other teams in order to really establish that.

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Steve Orlando on Midnighter (via nextreact)

He clearly understands the character, and says some things I like, but I am disappointed about Apollo :(

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