"I was not going to pitch it to DC, simply because it wouldn't fit in their whole superhero universe. I didn't think it was a really good Vertigo book, since all of their books kind of had a universal look at the time, of pouty teenagers with lots of face shrapnel and tattoos, railing against The Man. It really wasn't that kind of book, so I just assumed they wouldn't be interested in it."

"You hear sometimes that people who create their own stuff save all their good ideas for their own properties, and don't spend them on the company-owned projects. I disagree with that. My personal theory is that we've all got this bucket full of good ideas, and if you just hold onto them, your bucket never gets fuller. There's only so many you can hold at a time, but as fast as you use them up, it fills up again with more good ideas. My notion is to spend everything you've got coming through your head as fast as you can, and you're guaranteed to get more good stuff."