First, I’d like to thank you for granting us at X-Men Nation this interview.  It's really a pleasure, for me personally, to interview the writer working on my favorite character's book.  ow you did you find your way into the comic industry? Do you mind sharing a little about your background and how you came to write Deadpool?

I'd been writing novels in the hardboiled crime, sci-fi genres, and I hooked up with an agent (David Hale Smith) who also handles comic book writers.  I let him know that it would be pretty cool to break into comic book writing.  He started putting my name out there, and about a year later I found myself on the phone with Axel Alonso at marvel.