I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?"

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

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.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

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.