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

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

I'm just running through this list of potential nannies and wondered if we should go for a superhero this time. Do you think Wolverine would be interested? He seems to be on every other team right now.

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

Marvel movies, are seeming slightly less exciting now that Star Wars has appeared and everything.

Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!

The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40 years or so I think sci-fi's been a little cold and a little inhuman quite often - certainly since the 1980s - and I really wanted to do something that almost felt like a regular, real-life drama but just set it in a sci-fi setting. I think the best stuff is always like that.