If You Feel The Need To Make

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.

Comic Artists Have Always Been Part Of My Social Circle. I Just Like Hanging Out With Artists, And I Always See Them At Conventions Or A Store Signing Or Something. "hey, We Should Do Something Together."

Matthew Vaughn Phoned Me Up And He Said, "hey, Listen, The Movie Has Just Done Gangbusters. We've Got To Do The Second One." And I Was Like, "matthew, I Have No Second Book. Dave And I Haven't Done It," And He's Like, "you're Kidding!" He Said, "this Movie's Just Made $420 Million!" I Was Like, "...we've Got Nothing." So The Amazing Thing Was, Because We Own The Rights, We Still Get Paid And Everything, Which Is Fantastic.

Oddly, I Think If You Look At Comic Books, You Look At The Shelves In The Store, It's Predominantly Male Characters, Historically. But If You Look Outside The Window It's 52-percent Female, And Something Odd Is Going On There. So I Do Think It's Your Responsibility As A Writer, Really, To Create Stuff That Little Girls Can Get Into Too. I Want My Daughters To Have Role Models That Are Female.

In The U.s., Superman Or Batman Or Something, The Law-enforcement People, Are The Most Famous Comic Characters. Americans Have A Respect, I Think, For Badges And A Respect For Uniforms. I Think That's, In Some Ways, Quite A Nice Thing, But It Can Be Dangerous, Too, Because It Can Obviously Be Abused.