Steven Grant posted a list of questions in the latest edition of Permanent Damage at Comic Book Resources:
1) What’s your favorite comic of 2004?
She-Hulk. I love its light-hearted approach, character-based comedy, and solid super-heroics. It’s a nice tonic, given some of the depressing material that’s been flooding the market.
2) What’s your favorite comics-related moment?
Awesome Andy’s moment of clarity in the sixth issue of the aforementioned. Actually, just about any Awesome Andy moment would make the short list.
3) What’s the worst thing to happen in comics in 2004?
Grim, depressing content translating into high sales in super-hero comics. It doesn’t help that I find the stories themselves pretty poor.
4) What’s your most fervid hope for comics in 2005?
That Marvel and DC (particularly Marvel) focus on quality over quantity in their publishing decisions. Flooding the market with more of the same doesn’t seem like the smart way to expand a dwindling market. It just makes it harder for interesting, unusual titles to make a dent or find an audience when they’re buried under thirty-seven comics featuring another Spider-Man/Wolverine team-up.
5) What aspect of comics in 2005 are you most looking forward to?
More Scott Pilgrim! What do you mean, “The second volume doesn’t come out until February”?
6) What’s your worst fear for comics in 2005?
Inertia. It seems like the Big Two aren’t trying anything new, either creatively or in terms of business practices; they’re just doing the same old things louder.
(Here are Matt’s answers at Highway 62.)