The Past Is An Anchor With Suffering

Anytime Something Becomes A Success In This Way You Always Get Imitators. I'm An Imitator Of The Guys I Love. I Imitate People Like Frank Miller, Who Is A Huge Inspiration To Me.

The Breadth Of The Potential Readership Is Also A Factor.

I Love The Fact That They [girls ]are Into Superman And Green Lantern And Batman And Everything, And They Really Do Have All Those Toys As Well, But I Don't Want All Their Role Models To Be Men.

Likewise, I See No Shame In Writing Captain America Or Wolverine.

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.