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There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation ...

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it.

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day!

When I do my best work, the stories tend to be pretty emotionally-charged.

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.

I know a lot of people who read 'Sweet Tooth' are the kind of people who don't read a lot of other comics. Whatever it was, I'm just glad it happened.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

The thaw came and the snow melted away and so did my dad. 'til there wasn't nothing left.

I don't play video games because I know that if I ever started, I'd never be able to maintain a career again.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.

I've always had a good handle on drawing children.

'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

I have a lot of great fans. A lot of fans have cosplayed as Sweet Tooth, which I thought was really cool.

I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.

Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Trillium.'

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Sony is looking at 'Descender' as a franchise of films rather than just one movie.

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.

'Hawkeye' is much more intimate than any of the superhero works I've done before.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.

If I'm not invested emotionally, the artwork doesn't feel emotional.