It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.

In the U.S., Superman or Batman or something, the law-enforcement people, are the most famous comic characters. Americans have a respect, I think, for badges and a respect for uniforms. I think that's, in some ways, quite a nice thing, but it can be dangerous, too, because it can obviously be abused.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?