After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.

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

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.