I Didn't Break Into Comics To Write

I'm A Huge Fan Of The Rod Serling Sci-fi, Where They Could Take The Most Odd And Enormous Ideas But Ground Them In Something Very Human.

I Didn't Want The Headache Of Having A Publisher Reviewing Everything I Wrote In Advance.

The Success [of The X-men], I Think, Is For Two Reasons. The First Is That, Creatively, The Book Was Close To Perfect ... But The Other Reason Is That It Was A Book About Being Different In A Culture Where, For The First Time In The West, Being Different Wasn't Just Accepted, But Was Also Fashionable. I Don't Think It's A Coincidence That Gay Rights, Black Rights, The Empowerment Of Women And Political Correctness All Happened Over Those Twenty Years And A Book About Outsiders Trying To Be Accepted Was Almost The Poster-boy For This Era In American Culture.

I Don't Know, Maybe It's Just Timely, Or Maybe It's The Fact That I Live In A House With Four Women, But I Just Find My Thoughts Kind Of Skewing That Direction At The Moment.

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.