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

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

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

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

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.