Sometimes I think of something that needs to be a movie instead of a comic, but mostly when I have ideas, I see them as comics. I’ve been writing comics since I was a kid, so it’s like second nature to me.

There was an article about it a few weeks back, they hired a hot new screenwriter for the new draft, and Fede Alvarez is going to direct it. So, fingers crossed. Hollywood takes forever, compared to comics especially.

Yes, me and Steve Epting and Bettie Brietwieser hope to return to her a lot in the future. The next story would take place in the late-70s/early 80s.

Just read books about writing. Bendis has a great book about comics writing so you can learn the formats various writers use, but the best books on writing I’ve ever read are Stephen King’s On Writing, Lawrence Block’s Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, and How to Write Mysteries by Larry Beinhart. 

I’d always recommend some old crime comics, like EC’s Crime Suspenstories, by Johnny Craig. Then I’d give them Southern Bastards or Scalped, for starters, probably. In novels, some my current favorite crime writers would be Megan Abbott, Sara Gran, Daniel Woodrell, Dennis Lehane. So many others I’m forgetting. I…

No. The only comics I work on anymore are my own original comics, like The Fade Out and Velvet and Kill or be Killed.