The 121-page book, drawn by Eduardo Risso, the acclaimed artist of Vertigo's crime series 100 Bullets, shines a spotlight on Dini, then a recent Emmy winner for Tiny Toon Adventures, who drinks too much and dates the wrong women (one woman bails on him as his Emmys date when she finds out the animation category isn't televised). Then one night he runs afoul of two thugs. In the days, weeks and months that follow, he tries his best to recover but has to navigate Batman and his infamous cohorts, who offer criticism and advice as if angels and devils on his shoulders.
Batman, a blunt parental figure, berates him and tells him ways he could have gotten away. The Joker, slyly evil, nudges him to take it easy and not leave his apartment (when just the opposite is what he really needs). Dini cites Woody Allen's 1972 film Play It Again, Sam, in which a film critic tries to get over a divorce with the help of Humphrey Bogart, as an inspiration. And he combined it with his writing process, which he says includes conjuring up characters who tell him their dialogue.
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