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

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

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

The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

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

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.