CBR News: Nick, of all the places you could have started “Morning Glories,” why start here?

Nick Spencer: This is the page that whenever we’re done, people will look back at this page and they’ll be furious with themselves because they’ll have been saying for however many years we do this book that we had no idea what we were doing and we were making it up as we went along. This is a page that will completely prove that we knew what we were doing from the get go. It’s purely out of spite! [Laughs]

But it’s really important to me, because I’ve paid a lot of attention to ways that things like “Lost” and “Battlestar Galactica” ended. I took a lot of notes on what people liked and what they didn’t like about those kinds of endings. I take it very seriously, the idea that people are getting into an ongoing here and into a long form mystery, and I want to make sure that they feel confident that there’s going to be a payoff that makes it worth it. This page is really about reinforcing that. There are a couple of things in this first issue that we’re not going to come back to for a very long time, and they’re just here just to show that we weren’t lying and we did know where we were going.