It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.

Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience reaction if you point out that superheroes must be a bunch of psychotic nuts. And there are the guys who do it because they're actually interested, and they're trying to get at what's going on underneath. They're interested in the process and the results.

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'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

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

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.