When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.