She Was Like John Rambo Meets Polly

I Always Think It's A Mistake When You Actually Have To Set Books Aside And Actually Sit Down And Research Something. I Always Think They've Got To Come From Within.

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.

The Weird Thing Is That Stuart's The One Guy - Stuart [immonen ]and Sean Gordon Murphy, They're The Kind Of Guys You Can Trust, Where You Don't Need To Do That Because Those Guys Are So Incredibly Reliable. They're Just Like Clockwork, They Turn In The Pages Just So Perfectly On Time. But I'm So Paranoid, Because I've Been Burned So Many Times, That I'm Still Even Banking These Guys.

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.

I've Done So Many Superhero Comics, And I've Actually Just Been Really Excited About Sci-fi, And Chrononauts And Starlight Were Both Sci-fi, Which I Had A Great Time Doing.