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Tell me about your column and your latest projects.
My column focuses on my latest pop-culture obsession, usually something comic book or toy related. I am continuing work on some short fiction (crime genre stuff) and a series of novels for young adults, titled "Spaceman 5"
Who or what are the biggest influences on your work and If you could pick one person to collaborate with living or dead who would you pick?
Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, Donald Westlake, Jim Thompson and Ayn Rand are all big influences, plus countless filmmakers and bands.
Dead Collaborator: Jim Thompson; Live Collaborator: Dave Gibbons
What album had the most influence on your adolescence?
The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime or Husker Du's Zen Arcade - total tie.
What were your favorite toys or games from your childhood?
Star Wars figures and ships, Mego Worlds Greatest Super-Heroes and Coleco Vision videogames
What is your pop culture guilty pleasure?
I still love grunge music and Pearl Jam; I watch way too many Disney shows/movies with my kids and don't HATE all of it.
If you could own one piece of artwork by any artist, who would you choose and why?
Something from Miller's The Dark Knight Returns - it was the comic that made me comic book junkie for life. I just got the Absolute edition of Miller's Ronin, so that will have to do for now, but someday . . . .
What are your favorite television shows that you feel ended too soon?
Currently: Life; Historically: Brimstone or Millennium
Who is your favorite super hero?
Batman, followed by Green Arrow, Kamandi, Deadman, and Plastic Man
If you were to have dinner with 5 people living or dead, who are they and what would you serve?
Ayn Rand, Sam Peckinpah, David Halberstam, Ernest Hemingway, and Oliver Stone; classic American BBQ
What fictional character do you identify most with?
I wish it were Parker from the Richard Stark novels, but its probably someone like Kevin Spacey's character from American Beauty (just not quite that frustrated with suburban life and family!)
What 5 movies could you watch again and again?
Jaws, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, Heat
What book or author do you regularly recommend?
Anything by Jim Thompson and Pattern Recognition by William Gibson; Comic: Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Dan Clowes
What are your favorite web sites?
Forces of Geek! WWTDD; gizmodo; wired; Comic Book Resources
What are you most looking forward to geeking out over in the coming year?
The Road, The Box and DC Comics' Blackest Night
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