Speaking in Parables: Newsarama talks with animator and comics artist Michel Gagne about Parables: An Anthology and his "controversial" backup stories in Detective Comics:

"I got an email from Batman editor Matt Idelson around Christmas 2001. He asked me if I would like to do a project for DC. I told him I’d like to do a 40-page Batman story. I asked him to let me have complete control over the thing and he agreed. Matt took a big gamble with me because I had never done any superhero work before. What came out of the experiment was probably one of the strangest Batman story to see print. It was very controversial with the fans and it seemed like a lot of people wanted my head on a stick for doing something so outrageous. The fact that the story ran in a very mainstream title such as Detective Comics didn’t help the matter."