The universal themes of Marvel's comics, I… the good guy gets the bad… beats the bad guy, I guess. I never thought of it in those terms you know. Each story stands on its own two legs, so to speak. You… you write a story, whether it's Spider-Man, or Iron Man, or Daredevil, or Dr Strange or whatever, and you want to make that story interesting. So… and you want the readers to enjoy it and want to come back and buy the next issue. So the universal theme is, to make it as exciting and interesting as possible. And, as I say, I… I'm not part of the Marvel editorial staff any more, but when I was there — and I’m… I'm sure it's the same now — you want the good guy to be the one that the reader would want to emulate, not the villain. Although the villain should be very colorful, and in a way charismatic, but the stories have to be told so that the reader would want to empathize with the… with the hero.

[Q] And do you enjoy writing for the villains more than writing for the heroes, or vice versa?

I can't say that I enjoyed writing for the villains more than the heroes, but of course it turns out that way. See, in the beginning, writing the hero was very exciting ’cause, getting his origin, that's what the whole series is going to be based on. But once you've created the hero, you've got him, and he's going to be pretty much the same in every story. But each story needs a new villain, so it is more interesting to keep coming up with new villains because each one is a new problem. The hero you've already done.