I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity.