After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

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.

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

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

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.