Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't know that it's a necessary part of the appeal that the superhero be superior.

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.

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

I've always been positive about superheroes.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

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