People just want good stories.

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

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck.

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.

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

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