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

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

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.