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

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.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

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

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

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.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.