Chicken for his friend

Peter Breedveld did a very thorough and personal interview with comic creator Charles Burns on his work, particularly Black Hole:

...in each character there’s some little part of me. I think in my older stories there’s a tendency to have these stereotype characters. I enjoyed examining these sterotypes, because there’s always a reason for stereotypes existing. So a person who’s bad, he’s really bad. For instance, the next door neighbor from the Big Baby story: he’s a drunk, he’s a wifebeater. Maybe we know a little more about Big Baby himself, but even with the characters, who are really good, or really bad, there’s something about them ...In Black Hole, even the guy who is like the most evil guy in the world, who shot these people, he’s going out to buy chicken for his friend. There’s some sympathy, he’s not purely evil. It’s not simple black and white. In the last issue we are examining a little bit more about him as well, so you’re finding out what the causes are, the reasons behind his horrible actions. Even the best characters are still making bad decisions, or they have something selfish or whatever.