I'm Very Proud Of Being A Hack.

I Used To Be Embarrassed Because I Was Just A Comic-book Writer While Other People Were Building Bridges Or Going On To Medical Careers. And Then I Began To Realize: Entertainment Is One Of The Most Important Things In People's Lives. Without It They Might Go Off The Deep End. I Feel That If You're Able To Entertain People, You're Doing A Good Thing.

Nobody Likes To Be Preached To.

I'd Like To Own Intel... I'd Like To Own Microsoft... I'd Love To Have Warner Bros In My Hip Pocket.

The Cliché I Tried To Avoid Was I Hated "teenage Sidekicks." I Always Figured If I Were A Superhero, There's No Way On God's Earth That I'm Gonna Pal Around With Some Teenager. So My Publisher Insisted I Have A Teenager In The Series, Because They Always Felt Teenagers Won't Read The Books Unless There's A Teenager In The Story; Which Is Nonsense.

We're Living In A World Where Everything Moves Very Quickly. We've Become A Very Visual Society, So I Think It's A Very Natural Thing That People Are Captivated With The Illustrations In A Story.