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.

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.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?"

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

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.