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

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

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

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

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.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.