We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.

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

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

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

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.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.