I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

Well, I always talk about how I used to work at an insane asylum and stuff, which is true, but to be honest, I just make crap up more than anything else.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

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?"

There's just something about that late '80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.