The Breadth Of The Potential

It Didn't Take A Trauma To Make You Wear A Mask. It Didn't Take Your Parents Getting Shot...or Cosmic Rays Or A Power Ring...just The Perfect Combination Of Loneliness And Despair.

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.

The Lovely Thing Is, If Marvel Had A Spider-man Movie Over At Sony Or Something, They Own The Rights To The Character, And The Editors And Producers Make Suggestions And Get Notes And Things. But You're Talking About Matthew Vaughn And Jane Goldman. They're Two Of The Best People In The World. The Notes Are Just Things Like, "this Is Absolutely Brilliant."

Comic Artists Have Always Been Part Of My Social Circle. I Just Like Hanging Out With Artists, And I Always See Them At Conventions Or A Store Signing Or Something. "hey, We Should Do Something Together."

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.