Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

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

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.