I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.