1. What initially drew you to comics? I had been a prose writer for a long time before I got my first opportunity to write a comic book. But I found that I really liked writing comics because it let me focus on dialogue and storytelling while leaving the scenery and visuals, which I never enjoyed writing, to someone else. Plus, I could make a living at it. 2. What do comics allow you to do as a creator? I think the main thing comics allows you to do is to take chances. In other, more expensive, visual mediums, i.e. TV and films, where you have to worry about losing millions of dollars, you have focus groups and executives looking over your shoulder. Bumpers that keep the creativity within safely marketable bounds. In comics, there's much less scrutiny because the investment level is less. So you can take chances and tell stories you wouldn't be able to get away with in other mediums.
3. Please tell us about your work on Superman: Space Age, One-Star Squadron, and any other projects you'd like to share about). Superman: Space Age tells the story of a Superman on a universe very similar to our own, albeit a universe that he knows is going to be destroyed in twenty years or so. So a lot of it is about hope and how you maintain it in the face of doom. How do you inspire it when you don't necessarily feel it yourself. One-Star Squadron is about a group of super heroes who've outlived their heyday and about their efforts to remain relevant, or at least make a living, in a world that no longer cares about them. These are the sort of depressing themes I usually write about. 4. Where can we find more information about your work?
DC has a pretty good list of my work with them under their creators page. Also, if they follow me on Twitter (@manruss), I promote myself and whatever I'm working on pretty regularly there.
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