BATTLESHIP ZERO will certainly come back into the narrative. With that visual, I could hardly leave it behind.

1) Scanners got to me at an early age.

There’s very little in WicDiv that isn’t deliberate, and the colour darkening is certainly one of the things we’ve planned. We like doing subtle things like that. It’s visual storytelling, and we try to use every trick we can. WicDiv is a lot of fun.

Honestly, it’s not the sort of question I’m comfortable answering. Darth Vader is a fictional villain. Hitler is one of the greatest monsters in human history. I can’t put them in the same sentence.

I over-worry about this sort of thing.

The short answer is that I had an original plan for Iron Man, which was basically a hard-science-fiction Deadwood-On-The-Mood take about the death of Space Travel. Then the idea to make him join the Guardians appeared, which immediately makes any hard-science take on Tony impossible. He can’t be having fun space…

Issue 25 of Darth Vader is quite the thing. I’m really proud of what everyone has done with it.

I haven’t yet, actually. I’ll probably give it a try, because - as you say - it’s kind of in my wheelhouse. I suspect it’ll drive me to distraction.

There was a worry, especially early on, that while anyone with an once of basic humanity would get that this is a horrible idea, there was always going to be some neo-Nazi would would be pro this. How we treat a lot of characters kicks against that, and the portrait of a collapsed, hypocritical, often-incompetent…

One of the main themes of Uber is the weaponization of human talent. As in, the methods we divorce ourselves from our humanity. So a lot of the treating the characters like machines is part of that. The cold hard math. I remember an anecdote I heard about Bomber Command calculating the density of bombing, knowing…

William at Avatar approached me to do a WW2 Superhero book, and I immediately thought... I’m not sure. There has been a lot of them. As you say, there were WW2 superhero comics during WW2. Some of the best minds in the industry have had a take. Was there anything left to do?

Oh, definitely. The really bad ones don’t normally get stopped. It’s the ones which aren’t bad enough. I generally am aiming to get more people shouting NO! at me than pressing like.