For Adam Brody, it all starts with Batman. “I remember taking a leak and, on my parents' toilet tank, was the folded calendar section for the LA Times, and it's Michael Keaton as Batman,” he says. “The image stayed with me as much as the poster for RoboCop in the video store.” He was 9 years old when Tim Burton’s Batman came out. From there, he started reading the early ‘90s comic books: Batman, X-Men, and Marvel stuff too. “Death of Superman was big around that era. They killed Superman. That was a big deal. And the death of Robin was big for me. Then I also was around at the launch of the Image comics, so Spawn was huge.” Later, around age 20, Brody graduated to graphic novels, like Watchmen, while still reading some monthly Spider-Man stuff.
