Not slasher horror per se, but the classic monsters - vampires and stuff like that, I loved it," Silvestri explains. That's the kind of horror I grew up with. "I grew up watching classic monster movies, like Universal Monsters and stuff. Equal parts Universal Monster and sci-fi villain, Simms became the threat on which Silvestri felt he could build an unlikely team-up between Batman and the Joker. To bring the two archenemies together, Silvestri concocted Amanda Simms, a creepy, crawly villain whose origin of heartbreak forms the backbone of Deadly Duo. But yeah, I had the punchline with the Joker in mind as the end of the story from the beginning." "That was the key…I wanted to keep readers off balance. "The only way I could do that was if I kept the entire series a mystery, filled with misdirection and twists and turns that I hope make sense," he continues. The whole setup of how it starts and how Batman and Joker become this duo, this team, is important on a lot of levels," Silvestri tells Newsarama. "Without spoiling, that was the crucial moment of the entire series. Batman & Joker: Deadly Duo #7 interior art
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