I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.