All My Kids Love Superheroes, But My

The Breadth Of The Potential Readership Is Also A Factor.

I'm Very Lucky That I Have This Other Career That Runs Alongside My Comic Career, Which Is A Film Career, And I've Been Given This Really Lovely Setup Where They Seem To Make The Movies Very Quickly As Well.

There Probably Aren't A Lot Of New Superheroes Around, So Whenever One Appears, It Makes A Bit Of Noise. Really, Most Of The People Who Are My Friends Write Characters They Loved As Children. I Get That, As Well, Because That's Why I Got Into Comics. But I'm Also Taking This Massive Liberation Creatively, Going Off And Doing New Stuff. The First And Foremost Reason I Do It Is Because I Think They're Fun, And I Can Do Anything I Want. I'm Not Constrained By Continuity.

The Heart Is A Muscle, And You Strengthen Muscles By Using Them. The More I Lead With My Heart, The Stronger It Gets.

When I Was A Kid Growing Up In The '80s, The Bbc Showed Those Old Buster Crabbe Serials Like Flash Gordon And Buck Rogers. So Instead Of Ponderous Sci-fi Or Depressing Sci-fi Or Dystopian Sci-fi And All The Things We're Kind Of Used To, Where It's Always Raining And It's Always Dark, I Thought, "wouldn't It Be Nice To Do Something That Was Just Fun And Absolutely Nonstop?" Like, I Love Writing Action, And This Thing Is That. It's All Action.