Also, I gotta say it was pretty cool how you parlayed the character/plot work done on The Order and exploited it for Invincible Iron Man, particularly with Pepper and Ezekiel. There was a fun sense of continuity there.

I miscarried. If you can call it that - I went in for my first appt and my uterus was empty. Now I have to decide between seeing if nature takes it's course or if I should do a D&C.

Any been there/done that info you could pass along?

Are there any updates on your Spider-Man project?

I need an engaging documentary. Any suggestions?

(I'm reasonably certain my daughter now wants to see an Emma Frost elephant, a thought that fills me with glee for reasons I'm not explaining to a six-year-old. Emma would be *mortified*.)

What, if any, are the differences in your approaches to scripting Uncanny and Iron Man?

What music do you listen to while you write?

Do you have plans for any creator-owned projects in the next couple years? If so, can you discuss in general terms the sorts of things you're contemplating?

Which of the characters you're currently writing do you find the most difficult to write, to get inside their head?

Has moving to your current location affected how you collaborate, seeing as how you're living in the West Coast comics Bloomsbury? (That's complimentary and refers only to quality and influence of the body of work, please ignore/disregard all Bloomsbury-related-assumptions regarding elitism, infidelity of members, class origins, socialism, and sexual orientation.)

Do you guys know, yet, if you'll be homeschooling HL?

If you can, what percentage of your writing time is spent in the staring-into-space-thinking phase, how much in writing first drafts, and how much in revising?

With the upcoming colorized Casanova arc, what's the plan in regards to the backmatter?

Also, I really enjoyed watching the movie "Charley Varrick" based on your recommendation in the back matter of "Criminal". Are there any similar movies you can recommend?

Aside from Casanova, any more indie work coming from you?

also, i know you are a baseball dork (were you wearing a misfits pin on a baseball interview? haha, please say yes) but are you as big of an NFL/NCAA football fan? just curious.

2)Any plans for a Casanova script book? I love me some script books.

3) Someone has already asked for movie recommendations so I'm going to assume your good taste carries over to books too. Any book recommendations?

Are there any genres or story-tropes that you've never had a chance to play with, but would like to in the near future?

I've heard enough about your innards over the last nine years that I could probably fucking draw them.

What are your favorite KC area eateries, and what is it that appeals to you with each one?

why aren't you handling the siege event?

Which one do you love? Which one do you enjoy writing the most, that you didn't think you would?

Also how do you feel about McGuire coming back to coach with the Cardinals? Have you always been a Cardinals fan? Or just since Larussa came? Who is your favorite all-time cardinal? My family is like...generations of Cardinals fans. I don't even really like baseball anymore, but my mom and grandmother are insane cardinals fans. We have the springfield cardinals down here and my mom goes to their minor league games...needless biographical information, but these are the things I think about when I read your tweets about the Cardinals.

Also, about railroad spikes-- have you tried phoning up a small museum? Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum is full of friendly, crazy-smart people who'd answer any question for a inquisitive and polite young man like you.

I will add that if there isn't a Casanova Vol. 4, I might possibly maybe cry a little bit.

PS. Totally tangent commentary: loved the Mountain Goats reference in Iron Man.

And in a peachy keen & perfect world that allowed for something like this to happen, would you ever consider writing something for Vertigo? It's a shame we'll probably never get a series from gentlemen like yourself, Brubaker & Bendis.

I find it hard work, especially as my day job involves some knakcering (do American's have that term? Tiring, then) physical labour ... it can be difficult to just get the chance to connect with my ideas and make sure they come across right on the page.

So how do you do it now? How did you do it when you were starting out; are there any changes?

What would be your one practical piece of advice for getting shit done?

Also, how far ahead do you write your scripts? For, say, a six issue mini, do you just crack out all six issues, editing them over time, or complete one issue, gear it up for release, and work on the script for the next?

this week is INSANE-- but i'm doing an X-Man X-Mas thing at Excalibur in december...

This probably answers itself since the spot colors don't sell as well as full color, there's probably not a big market for the spot color version, huh?

And and and I wanna ask about the colorist and publisher but you said in the recent podcast that news would break soon so... I'll just put those out there for you if you want to answer or hint at them.

why aren't you handling the siege event?

Though I seem to recall when you first started Uncanny with Bru you had it mapped out the major arcs up to 525. Im curious how close to that basic outline the stories came out and how much further along you have your story plotted out to?

And for my out of left field question and I meant to ask you this at heroes con years ago, but why was ICP in the Agenda Suicide video way back when?

Also, recently CAS was referred to as 'supercompressed', mentioned in the same breath as THE WINTER MEN and some Grant Morrison stuff. Winter Men and Casanova are my two favourite comics of the decade; have you read the former and do you hold to any notion of 'supercompression' as a vague or specific approach to writing?

Do you have any artistic ability in drawing and art etc?

Can you confirm that Salome from UXN #512 is Sage(Tessa)'s grandmother?

Do you think Dazzler should show up singing a Lady Gaga song?

How did you track down the people you needed to track down to give them your piece?

What kinds of things were you really trying to show in that phase of the game?

When I told you it was my first ever convention you told me "That's like having your first sexual experience be an orgy".

And of course, the nerd in me has to ask the Marvel superfan question. While you were on the Punisher, you mentioned that the end of your run would culminate in a story called "King Frank". Which I didn't end up being the actual name of an arc. Was this story just shelved? Was it boiled down into the last issue of your run? If it was shelves, could you share a bit what it would have been about?

I suppose there's some part of me, the idealist or some other pretentious shit that hates when art, like capital A "art" doesn't get to exist in it's ideal form because people need to eat. But I don't pay my rent with a pocket full of dreams and I know none of you do either. So like, I don't begrudge anyone the deacision made. Or the necessity of the situation.

I remember when Cass was up for an award under "best black and white comic" or whatever it was. I remember you saying the cyan was to make sure that the B&W thing didn't persist. But it did. I know.

And when I really think about it? I know, as I said, that you guys are going to do a fucking great job with the colors. I know it'll probably be Dave or Fabio doing it. And shit man, if it puts the book in more hands and helps make it the success if deserves to be, and keeps another, as you mentioned, non power ring, weird, different, interesting comic on the stands than that's all that matters. Sorry if it came off as otherwise.

Also:Also: Your favorite album, this year, thus far?

how are you tackling such a huge cast? You've mentioned that you've got some massive wall-charts, what goes into that? Is it basically a list to track where the characters are in the storyline?

Basically wondering if you can speak for a minute about what you've learned thus far about writing a big-ass team/universe book like X-men.

Also what is your opinion on crossovers, and major events?

Do you think it is unrealistic to have self-contained stories in an ongoing series or must every issue end with a cliff hanger?

And if you are a fan, what's your opinion on the latest entries, starring Daniel Craig?

I have to say, it kind of frightened me when you knew my name this time at Baltimore Con. :) Is the con experience getting tiresome? It seems like it would be fun in year one of Marvel superstardom, say, and then you'd be over it after a spell. Not really a great question, I guess, but I have been curious about whether or not the con travelling experience just becomes wearisome.

- What do you do about the things you suck at drawing? ie: for me, anything that isn't a person is going to look like arse...

And finally; what's your favourite cheat? Like, I know I can fake up a light source and its resulting shadows pretty easily by picking one or two sides of the object and chucking some colour onto them. And by doing so, I can make a five minute line drawing look a whole lot better. (btw, no judgement intended with the use of the word 'cheat', substitute 'technique', 'trick', 'illusion').

oh no, no, i was genuinely curious. i don't... like, i'm wary of appearing as if we're asking people to double-dip, is all. we're trying to find new stores, new eyeballs, and to satisfy anyone else that came back without... like, gratuitously dipping in the well. i've been straw-polling CASANOVA readers at shows for the last year about it and have had universally positive responses; i suppose i wanted to see how hyperbolic your statement was, or in what ways your statement was hyperbolic. if that makes sense.

I had a plan-- that i'll do somewhere, someday-- for issue three where it would've had three different endings, depending on what random copy you bought and we'd never announce it. but everybody would remember the ending differently because there were three different ones...

Also was there anyone you gushed about online that you met, that you felt embarassed about the gushing like 'shit i hope he didn't read that thing about me wanting to bear his babies'?

And finally, any advice for someone planning to break into the industry from somewhere not one of the 'powerbases' of the industry?

What do you do about the things you suck at drawing?

what's your favourite cheat?

When designing the new characters for Iron Fist, the other immortal weapons in particular, did the ideas start with one of you and then fleshed out by the other, or was it a balanced collaborative all the way down the line?

can you tell us anything about what what we can look forward to seeing from you?

A comic is for being read, so I tried to do pictures for being read not pictures for being looked, does this have any sense?

And how different is the feedback you get from readers who read your creator owned stuff vs. WFH?

- RESCUE, huh? I believe I slipped you the names Iron Dove and Nightingale at the NYC Comic Con when you were panhandling for suggestions. Any other names nearly make the grade? Either way, your work with the character is a boon to the MU.

- Have you seen the portrayal of The Ghost in Thunderbolts? I'm really into this revival of the character and I was curious if you're looking to utilize him.

Do you ever consciously write in terms of rhythm, almost musically maintaining beats across a short or story arc?

Will the X-Men still be associated with the city of San Francisco now that they have relocated from Graymalkin Industries to Utopia? It feels as if their stay there would have been cut too short otherwise.

As you also write Iron Man, is there any chance for a crossover with that title? Or some guest starring perhaps?

How far ahead do you plan your upcoming stories? I assume long-range plans might be difficult due to the many X-writers working on connected titles?

And how will going to a regular format (22 or 32 pages) effect the 'super compressed' (Luxuria, anyway) nature of the book? Gula was a bit different, but...

Are you ever really satisfied with your dialogue?

Anyhow, any advice on dialogue, minus "go read Mamet screenplays?"

Why don’t you read your stories once they are published? I can understand, I only read mine a long time (like, half an year) after being published so I can make a cold judgement but never? Don’t you feel tempted or something?

TIGER’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, a voluptuous belly dancer of a fighter. Her entourage is made up of courtesans equally voluptuous. One woman, is curvaceous like the Venus of Willendorf-- TIGER MISTRESS.

2. As a fellow Chicago Cubs fan, do you think your child will see the Cubs win a World Series in his lifetime?

Do you admire any old Iron Man storylines from Kurt Busiek, Len Kaminski or Bob Layton? Salvador Larroca - what it is like to work with him?

Will "Stark: Disassembled" storyline interract with the Siege event? Will there be any issues in Invincible Iron Man, that will be just issues and not a new arc.

When was the last time you took a one month vacation?

We hear a lot about the US/UK artists than had influenced you but who were you reading as kids in your countries?

I read you lived in Valladolid. I'm studying there since a couple of month and I CAN'T FIND A COMIC SHOP written in Spanish

v3 will be as different from 2 as 2 was from 1. "regular format" isn't... like, with CASANOVA, that's a fucking misnomer if there ever was.

3. I remember Joe Quesada saying, before the Iron Man movie came out, that there were things from the film that would be incorporated into the comic book character because of how well they worked - what elements from the film did he mean? Or was that abandoned when you came on? I know you've said you weren't greatly informed by the movie.

4. What's the best thing to happen in the noughties?

i would love it if people started dressing up like maniacs in 10 inch heels and latex crowns. pop music is music to dress up to.

there is absolutely merit in the idea, and if i thought i had the audience, the good will, the time to do it, and believed there was a POD solution that could create a worthwhile product, i'd explore it. but i don't, i don't, I don't, and i haven't done the research.

If yes, which ones; if no, any particular reason outside of "not enough hours in the day"?

Given that comics generally can't do what McKee calls the "cheap shock," what techniques do you think horror comics have over, for example, film?

What are some of your favorite horror comics? (Aside from Domu, which A. you mentioned previously and B. is impossible to find and not being reprinted at the moment.)

What's some of your favorite horror B-movies?

is there anything you want to do in addition to or instead of comics?

and the sub-question: is there anything you want to do in addition to or instead of comics?

I like this "David Aja" person.

Do you see the Mandarin as closer to a Kingpin type of villain or closer to a Leader type of villain?

I'm sure you've heard the famous Dock Ellis story of pitching a no-hitter while tripping on LSD-