1. Manhunt is over, what are your thoughts on how it
was written?


  Marvel dropped me off the comp list a while back, so I don't think I saw any issues of "Manhunt." 
  The last IRON MAN I remember seeing was part of that AVENGERS/THOR crossover.


2. Is there anything you would have done differently?


  No idea, sorry.


3. With the upcoming story, Tony may become Secretary of Defence. What do you hope will happen?


  I'll leave that to John Miller -- he's the writer, right?  I think it's an intriguing idea,
  but haven't given any thought to plotting it out.


4. Were there any stories you wanted to print, that
you decided against or couldn't?


  We had stories we didn't get around to, including a big Tony Stark versus Roxxon blowout that would have come when 
  Tony found out that it was  Roxxon (or rather, their predecessor company) that had his parents killed.  
  And there were others, but who knows, I might get to write them someday.


5. Many have been saying Iron Man isn't a power house anymore, how would you fix this?


  I probably just wouldn't worry about it -- I'm far more concerned with the characters being interesting than being 
  presented as mega-powerful.  After all, Spider-Man's nowhere near as much a "powerhouse" as the Silver Surfer,
  but more readers seem to like him. So I'd just write the best Iron Man stories I could, 
  and if the fans thought he was a powerhouse, then cool.  If some of 'em didn't, then that's cool too -- 
  as long as the stories are good.


6. Do you like the current armor? Or would you tweak it a bit?


  I think it's a little busy, and I've never much liked it when they put those segmenting lines on the yellow parts --
  I'm enough of a purist to thing the red parts are supposed to be bulky and segments and the yellow parts are supposed
  to be sleek.  So I'd rather simplify it a bit.  Or am I an armor behind now?


7. What was the first comic you ever bought?


  No idea.  Probably something with Batman in it. The first one I bought that got me wanting to buy them regularly --
  the one that made me an ongoing reader rather han a casual reader, was DAREDEVIL #120, which I still own.


8. What new projects are you working on now?


  I'm doing ASTRO CITY and ARROWSMITH for Wildstorm, JLA/AVENGERS for Marvel & DC, SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY for DC, 
  CONAN for Dark Horse and MARVELS: EYE OF THE CAMERA for Marvel.  Plus other small projects here and there.


9. How did you get into the comic field?


  I submitted sample scripts to Dick Giordano when he was EIC at DC, back in the Stone A -- er, in 1982. 
  They were enough to get me some GREEN LANTERN backup assignments from Ernie Colon, and on the strength of those I did 
  POWER MAN & IRON FIST for Marvel, and on it went from there.


10. Do you have a comic creator you consider a role model/hero?


  There are any number of comics creators I consider influences, from Roy Thomas to Steve Englehart to Leonard Starr to
  Milt Caniff and more, but I don't think of any of them as role models.  I don't really want to follow in anyone's footsteps,
  everyone makes mistakes, so I try to learn from where they went wrong as well as where they went right, and then 
  proceed to make mistakes of my own...


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