"There’s a More Literate Readership Now"

"The way Mr. Snyder uses language also sets him apart from other comics writers. It’s more precise, more controlled—appropriate enough for a writer who received a master’s degree in fine arts from Columbia University and who teaches a graduate course in comics writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Here’s the opening of 'Batman: The City of Owls':

"'I’ve always believed the best way to know a city is to stay close to the ground. To feel the cracks in the sidewalk under your shoe. The strange bright silence of the park under snow. The hissing sparks that come down when the elevated train passes overhead on Third Avenue.' So long, Bam! Pow! Zzzttt!"

Dana Jennings in The New York Times profiles comics writer Scott Snyder.