I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.