I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.