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

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

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