I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck.

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

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

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.

The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.