I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

I thought I was Spider Man!

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

I was into Batman. I was into Spider-Man.

A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.

I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.