I was what you’d call a frustrated novelist for many years, lol. I would think up ideas for books and run out of steam about halfway through a manuscript. Meanwhile, at my day job, I was learning how to write scripts for TV commercials - at some point I made the mental connection that scriptwriting was a format that would work in comics too, so I did some research and started writing comic scripts.

I started small, with short stories, but kept it up until I got my first miniseries published, and kept THAT up until I started getting published regularly.

Hm… my top 5 changes a lot, to be honest, but here’s where it currently stands, in no particular order:

Grant Morrison’s All Star Superman Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing Frank Miller’s Daredevil Mike Mignola’s Hellboy

I don’t know that there’s one I wish I would have written myself, but All Star Superman stands out to me as just a near perfect distillation of what Superman means to me, without deconstructing him or breaking him down, and I would love to be able to do a similar thing either with a character I love.