I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

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.

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.

However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

I'm a Christian but only me and the Lord know that for sure.

In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

Leaders arent born they are made. And they are made just like anything else through hard work. And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.

No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.

As a word ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.

Just eat less and exercise more.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

Action is the step many forget when they wonder what happened to their dream.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.