comics

Q: Think you could still squeeze into that old Batman costume? A: I’m wearing it now.

“I called my tights my python pants, because they nearly strangled me to death,” says Ward.

At $125, it’s not your typical comic book. But then, Roger Stern is not your typical comic-book writer. He professed to be a diehard comic fan long before he arrived at Indiana University in the early ’70s, and would eventually teach a class there called “The Comic Book in Society.”

“If you spill that on my costume, I’m leaving you here,” said a man in Halo armor to his friend wielding a slushy.