There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

I knew if we could pull in the Stephen King fans, we'd have a ball game. The point at which I finally became confident of the audience interest was when I showed up at one of the Marvel midnight openings to launch the very first issue of Dark Tower.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.