I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.
My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.
If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.
It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.
Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.
The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.
The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.
My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs.
That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.
If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.
The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.
I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.
But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.
