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When That Character And The X-force Appeared, They Took The Comic World By Storm. You Have To Look At Those Numbers. And You See That That Isn't Rob Liefeld's Only Creation. There's All These Other Things, Like Cable And Domino. There's So Many Things That Actually Could Be Fascinating Onscreen And Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen Before Onscreen. So I Think Fox Is In A Really Nice Position Where They've Got Something That Feels As Wide And Different As The Marvel Universe.

I Just Noticed I've Been Writing Lots Of Female-led Things. Two Of Them Haven't Been Announced Yet, But The Big Greg Capullo Book I'm Doing Is A Female-led Story, And I'm Doing Another Series With John Romita Which Is A Female-led Story As Well.

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.

When I Was A Kid Growing Up In The '80s, The Bbc Showed Those Old Buster Crabbe Serials Like Flash Gordon And Buck Rogers. So Instead Of Ponderous Sci-fi Or Depressing Sci-fi Or Dystopian Sci-fi And All The Things We're Kind Of Used To, Where It's Always Raining And It's Always Dark, I Thought, "wouldn't It Be Nice To Do Something That Was Just Fun And Absolutely Nonstop?" Like, I Love Writing Action, And This Thing Is That. It's All Action.

Cookbooks Are Almost A Substitution For A Lost Sense Of Culture. People Want Some Other Life Than The One They're Living, So They Buy A Cookbook With Pictures And Imagine Themselves As Part Of That Life.