Zack Snyder

And I was doing it, whatever, almost, you know, 15 years ago.

And, you know, I just don't think superheroes were as deep in the culture as they are now where, like, all those things would land.

You know, like, all that deconstructive...

kind of work that we were doing at the time was really in reference to comic books, not comic book movies, because Watchmen was written, you know, in response to the comic book industry, not necessarily comic book movies didn't exist when the book was written.

Right.

You know, so it's a very much, you know, Alan Moore was very much obsessed with the morality of comic book heroes within comic books, right?

And so he just took an adult look at it.

He's a smart genius.

He's a fucking pure genius.

Yeah I'll tell you my sorry.

Go ahead finish your no.

No, you want?

Oh, so I what I was gonna say was that like I I

Was obsessed with growing up this comic book called Heavy Metal.

And Heavy Metal is like my thing.

Basically what happened was my mom, I had bought, I was like 13 or whatever, maybe 12 even.

I bought a copy of Heavy Metal, whoever sold it to me.

Because, you know, it says Adult Illustrated Fantasy Magazine right underneath Heavy Metal.

In kind of small letters, but it's there.

I would cover it with my thumb when my mom was around.