I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

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

My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

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

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.