All right, I gotta get back to work and walk my dog. Thanks for all the great questions everybody.

I try not to ever think about how different my life would be if me and Steve owned the Winter Soldier. That way lies madness.

No

Don’t adapt it. Just start over as a comic. Each medium has their own language.

Yeah, hopefully soonish.

Hopefully a tv series someday.

For me, once a character takes over, it’s about letting them be who they want to be. I don’t know how to write Velvet any differently than I wrote it.

He’s probably just a jerk.

That was about me channeling my childhood nostalgia after my dad died of cancer. I threw everything I loved as a kid into one dark twisted comic story. It was less about the analogues - The Archie gang, Encyclopedia Brown, Richie Rich, etc - than it was about my grief. What I learned was that even when you write an…

Writing is a calling, but those who make a living at it are rare, even in Hollywood, which has more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, probably. It’s not an easy field to survive in, but if that’s what you want to do, you’ll just keep doing it anyway. I wrote and worked part-time jobs until my early…

I don’t think either of us would be into that, but I do love Stray Bullets.

Maybe, if I needed the WGA points that year. I like some of those shows. But they all have writing staffs, and I’m plenty busy with my own TV writing already.

Well, it is a very dark book, but I think Dylan’s voice is pretty funny. He’s constantly second-guessing himself or making fun of himself for the things he thinks and does. That suicide attempt in issue 1 is stopped by him in mid-sentence twice, to back up and tell you more of the story. To me, that playfulness is…

No, the way I recall it is when Gary found out I was writing Batman for a living, he became less interested in finishing the interview. But maybe he just got very busy. Then years later, they asked Tom Spurgeon to do the follow-up and make it a cover story.

Bucky was my favorite character as a kid, and I always hated that his death was a retcon, that Stan Lee always teased that he might still be alive or that he might come back. So when I was a kid, I came up with lots of ideas for ways to bring him back, and then I forgot all about it until I got offered Captain…

That’s too wide a question.

I like The Outfit, with Robert Duvall. And then Point Blank. And then I’d put the director’s version of Payback. I think the Outfit feels the most like one of the books, and Point Blank is just a work of art, and Payback came very close to getting Parker right.

No, I never liked Diamondback as a character very much. I was always about Sharon and Cap.

Well, I don’t think writing fiction about awful things condones them. But for the larger answer, I’m sure Kill or be Killed is influenced by all of that stuff on some level. The world around you is always impacting your writing, and you reflect that world back on the page, whether you realize it or not.

Ugh, that’s a tough one. I write mostly by instinct. I start with a pad of paper and put notes down of what needs to be in the story, and start piecing it together. I jot down narrative ideas and rough dialog, then make the scripts up as I type, but it’s a very long process. Getting to the point where you’re telling a…