Avant l’épisode plus respectueux avec Superman, Ennis ne ménage pas Batman (Hitman, 1996) :
Peter Tomasi (alors editor, et non éditeur, au moment de la publication de la série) évoque la fameuse scène où Batman se fait vomir dessus :
"Tomasi: Well, we can start with issue one, and the “Tommy vomiting on Batman” scene. That was ready to go to print, and it was an awesome shot. It’s not there now, but it was just a great shot of Tommy blowing goo all over Batman. It was an amazing shot, just the vomit hitting Batman’s chest and splattering his face.
And let’s just say, the people upstairs said, “We don’t want to show Batman being vomited on.” And I’m like, it doesn’t make him weak. He socks Tommy; there’s a great beat, and he pops him. And that’s the stuff you remember. You remember these off-kilter moments. Nobody remembers another fight scene or the same-old crap. Everybody remembers the small, emotional moments in a character’s history. Those are the ones that linger forever and ever, and those are the ones people dig.
I wish we could’ve had that original art there. But that was a blast, working on that series was awesome. Garth and John were firing on all cylinders all the way through. I wish they’d make an omnibus of that."