Katana Quotes

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice.

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

I've always wanted to play a samurai warrior.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.

I also have some Chinese weapons, but I like the Japanese sword the best.

It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

I'm a ninja! I like swords and knives and stuff like that.

So, I heard you're this ninja or something.

Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?