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CraveOnline: Top 5 Desert Island Records?

Steve Niles:
Bad Brains: First Roir Cassette/CD
Motorhead: No Sleep Till Hammersmith
Fu Manchu: In Search of
Beatles: White Album
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street

CraveOnline: The debate rages over paper comics vs online comics, where do you fall on the subject?

Steve Niles: I like holding a comic in my hand and I know I won't pay to read a stinkin' comic online, so my vote is no. Online is great for something. Reading a comic is not one of them. With that said, I'm sure we'll wind up there because we are heading towards becoming a paperless, non-reading, illiterate society and online comics will fit right in. I hope I can have my food directly inserting into my stomach soon too. All this chewing is tiring me out.

CraveOnline: Name one comic book character you wish you had created.

Steve Niles: Create? Batman. Hands down.

CraveOnline: What titles are you reading now? Why those?

Steve Niles: Not a lot of titles I follow but I do follow creators like Charles Burns and Dan Clowes. I read anything my Mark Millar (he knows how to stir shit up) and Ed Brubaker (Best Crime Writer right now). I will also pick up the occasional Grant Morrison book.

CraveOnline: Tell us something about Steve Niles that would surprise people.

Steve Niles: I've answered this question many times before. No? Not a surprise? Okay, let me see…I'll eat just about anything. I love Sushi and I'll even eat the Sea Urchin.

CraveOnline: One literary character you'd like to have dinner with. Why?

Steve Niles: Tarzan, because he's tear the shit out of the restaurant and I would laugh and laugh.

CraveOnline: Are you scripting any original films? Is that something that interests you?

Steve Niles: Working on one right now. With the writers strike over I can start hitting the bricks again so I might have something to announce soon.

CraveOnline: People are really pissed about Marvel's decision with Spider-Man and the whole erasing of his history. What's your feeling on it?

Steve Niles: I feel the only way Marvel can get press is to make trouble in lieu of actually putting out good books. Spiderman unmasking, Captain America dying, now Cap with a gun, and so on. The only time we hear about Marvel is when they are "controversial". How about just telling a good story? Marvel has some of the best talent in the industry in Bendis, Millar, Brubaker and don't even get me started on the artists. So much great talent being used on cheap gimmicks. It's really sad. Corporate and sad. As far as the Peter and Mary Jane thing….if you can't tell a good story with them married, then you probably won't be able to with them single.