As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.