According to Comicbook.com, "Detective Comics hits 1000 issues this year and to celebrate, the landmark issue will contain original stories from a variety of writers, including Kevin Smith." Kevin Smith told the press, "It's just crazy. Each time you smoke a joint you just don't know what's going to happen next, you're like 'Oh my god'. One time I smoked a joint, wrote this f**king issue of Detective Comics that's coming up on issue 1000. They've had a thousand issues. I think it must have done more, but in their numbering their coming up to Detective Comics issue 1000. So, they asked me 'Will you write a story for, an eight-pager, Jim Lee will draw it?' I was like f**k yeah, Jim Lee? Holy sh*t, man, I'd let him draw my death. Like, he's so f**king good. So, I smoked this f**king strain. It's crazy. I'll never know what it was. It was like we're passing like two ships in the f**king night and shit. I don't know what it was, so I can't be like 'You must get me this'. It made me write honestly the best Batman story I'll ever write."
