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

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.

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

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.