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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.

Matthew Vaughn Phoned Me Up And He Said, "hey, Listen, The Movie Has Just Done Gangbusters. We've Got To Do The Second One." And I Was Like, "matthew, I Have No Second Book. Dave And I Haven't Done It," And He's Like, "you're Kidding!" He Said, "this Movie's Just Made $420 Million!" I Was Like, "...we've Got Nothing." So The Amazing Thing Was, Because We Own The Rights, We Still Get Paid And Everything, Which Is Fantastic.

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.

When You Expect The Best From People, You Will Often See More In Them Than They See In Themselves.

Oddly, I Think If You Look At Comic Books, You Look At The Shelves In The Store, It's Predominantly Male Characters, Historically. But If You Look Outside The Window It's 52-percent Female, And Something Odd Is Going On There. So I Do Think It's Your Responsibility As A Writer, Really, To Create Stuff That Little Girls Can Get Into Too. I Want My Daughters To Have Role Models That Are Female.