I Was A Clubber In The Nineties.

A Comic Will Always Be More 'personal' Than A Dvd Or Cd, Both Of Which Require Electronic 'players' To Decode Their Content. With Comics, The Reader Is The Player So The Engagement With The Material Is Always More Fundamental And Dynamic. Reading Comics Is A Much Less Passive Activity Than Consuming Cds And Dvds.

American Writers Often Say They Find It Difficult To Write Superman. They Say He's Too Powerful; You Can't Give Him Problems. But Superman Is A Metaphor. For Me, Superman Has The Same Problems We Do, But On A Paul Bunyan Scale. If Superman Walks The Dog, He Walks It Around The Asteroid Belt Because It Can Fly In Space. When Superman's Relatives Visit, They Come From The 31st Century And Bring Some Hellish Monster Conqueror From The Future. But It's Still A Story About Your Relatives Visiting.

With Marvel And Dc, You're Working With Their Pre-established Fictional Universes And Characters. At Those Places, You're Working With Characters Who Will Outlive You And Maybe Your Children And Your Childern's Children. Batman Will Outlive Me, Spider-man Will Outlive Me, The Avengers Will Outlive Me, And So It Goes.

Your Head's Like Mine, Like All Our Heads; Big Enough To Contain Every God And Devil There Ever Was. Big Enough To Hold The Weight Of Oceans And The Turning Stars. Whole Universes Fit In There! But What Do We Choose To Keep In This Miraculous Cabinet? Little Broken Things, Sad Trinkets That We Play With Over And Over. The World Turns Our Key And We Play The Same Little Tune Again And Again And We Think That Tune's All We Are.

I Can Always See Ways To Improve What I've Done. At The Same Time, Knowing It's All An Ongoing Life's Work Allows Me To Be Less Precious About Blind Alleys, Failed Experiments, And Misfires.