'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.
I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately.
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.
I want to show there's an edgier side of people who love comic books. And there are people who don't look like you and me who do read comic books and who love artists.
