Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.