In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

People just want good stories.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

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.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.