I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

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

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

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.

There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.