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![“I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also personal. [In All-Star], I wanted to take that to its complete extreme, like the end of the Earth extreme, where it's over-the-top humorous, yet at the same time really deeply about what I…” quote by Scott Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d7d/scott-snyder-9381_all-stars_i-was-on-batman-with-superheavy-or-zero_776848.jpg)
