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

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

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