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.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

People just want good stories.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.