If You Want To Build A High

I Spent As Much Time Writing Proposals In '98 And '99 As I Did Writing Scripts.

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.

At The Moment, I Have It Planned As A Six Or Seven Year Experiment, But The Books Will Only Ever Appear In Bursts Like This Every Couple Of Years And Only With The Best Quality Artists.

You Kind Of Worry For The Characters In A Way That You Don't Normally In Sci-fi, Because Sci-fi Tends To Be About The Ideas, And This Is About People.

It's Been A Very Interesting Exercise As A Writer - Writing A Little Family Group, Like The Incredibles Or The Simpsons Or Something Like That, And Setting It In A Big Star Wars-type Setting. It's Been Really Fun, Definitely Different From The Kind Of Thing I Normally Do.