E.K: Which one of your works in comic books made you feel that you had reached the highest level of your storytelling talents and abilities. In other words, which work of yours do you consider your best, so far?

M.V: Impossible to say. There are things in different works I've done that I like. There's a lot I don't, too.

E.K: Is there any literary movement that has significantly inspired your writing style and that you believe they show in your work?

M.V: I love reading history but have done very little in that field. I wish I had a better idea but most of the time I write what I care about and I don't know where the inspiration comes from.

E.K: I'm sure that you must be fed up with talking about Crisis On Infinite Earths. Nonetheless, I feel obligated to ask you about this extremely important chapter in the history of the comic book medium. While you were collaborating with George Perez, were you aware of the fact that you were creating a piece of work that would remain unsurpassed in its scope and magnitude for so many years?

M.V: I knew we were doing something very important, no doubt about that. You can't pitch an idea that would completely change 50 years of comic history without knowing that. I knew while we were doing it that the story was actually working, despite it being so complex in plot and scope. And I knew we had done something really good. As for whether or not it is unsurpassed as a company crossover maxi-series or not, that's not my place to say. I think it's the best one done to date, but others might disagree. But I certainly hope in the future it is obviously surpassed. Since I can see problems in it (I would have loved the story to take 24 issues but with no more story so George's art could have been bigger, and i would have loved to have had time to do another pass on the dialogue) if nobody ever does better it means the standards are falling. But I am 90% satisfied with what we did even though I still wish we'd been allowed to do the ending I wanted where everyone forgot the Crisis ever happened and that all DC Comics were renumbered #1 the month after the book was done. That way all continuity problems that have cropped up would have been solved. But I wasn't allowed to do that.

E.K: During the 80's, the Teen Titans, under your creative guidance was the flagship team book of DC Comics and -in a way- the greatest opponent of Marvel's X-Men. What do you feel is the reason that the glory days of the Titans were cut short in the late 80's & early 90's, while the success of the mutants kept getting bigger?

M.V: Many reasons. Some personal, some editorial. I won't go into it.

E.K: Do you read the new Titans book? I'm sure our readers would love to hear your opinion on it.

M.V: I never read any book based on material I created once I get off the title.