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

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

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

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan Moore is probably the most radical guy you'll ever meet. I grew up loving those guys, so my heroes, as a kid, were radical cartoonists, essentially. I couldn't help but - I grew up in a left-wing household. But I do think it's fun, writing right-wing characters. I've found it interesting, just as a writer, to get inside their heads and make them likeable.

Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.