The Amazons, over many thousands of years of living eternally, have developed some very strange and ritualized ideas about sex is all I can say,” he noted. When I asked if it was anything like Brian Azzarello’s recent ‘Sex Pirate Spartans’ take on them, he answered with “Nothing like that. This is what happens if you have a utopian community of women. They don’t need to kill men. They don’t need any of that. But other things happen. You’ve got maybe a couple of thousand women – 250 years later, they’ve all kissed one another. A thousand years later, what’s going on? Two thousand years later, what the hell is going on? And then we take up the story a thousand years after that. We owed the world – it’s a genuinely new and different sexuality. Here’s something you don’t understand and let’s see if you can make sense of it. I really worked on it. We did a lot of research on this book.