You Kind Of Worry For

All My Kids Love Superheroes, But My Middle Daughter In Particular Is Obsessed With Wonder Woman And Batgirl.

In The U.s., Superman Or Batman Or Something, The Law-enforcement People, Are The Most Famous Comic Characters. Americans Have A Respect, I Think, For Badges And A Respect For Uniforms. I Think That's, In Some Ways, Quite A Nice Thing, But It Can Be Dangerous, Too, Because It Can Obviously Be Abused.

The Big Thing Is It's A Domestic Drama. Everything Else In Science Fiction Tends To Be High-concept. Really For The Last 40 Years Or So I Think Sci-fi's Been A Little Cold And A Little Inhuman Quite Often - Certainly Since The 1980s - And I Really Wanted To Do Something That Almost Felt Like A Regular, Real-life Drama But Just Set It In A Sci-fi Setting. I Think The Best Stuff Is Always Like That.

I'm So Used To Artists Saying To Me, "listen, I'm Going To Have Five Pages Done Next Week," And Then Three Weeks Later I'm Phoning Them, Begging Them For Two Pages. And Stuart [immonen]is A Guy Who Will Promise You Five Pages And Deliver Six Pages, And The Six Pages Are Even Better Than You Could Have Ever Imagined.

I Always Think It's A Mistake When You Actually Have To Set Books Aside And Actually Sit Down And Research Something. I Always Think They've Got To Come From Within.