With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
I tend to forget what I’m doing will ever be read while I’m writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn’t allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn’t let me take the characters seriously.
I don’t necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there’s nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.
I’m sure you’re aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don’t really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I’d like to do.
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.