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My father hasn't backed me in any way, and I don't think anybody has backed me.
It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
Cyborg was the first superhero that I've ever seen whose parent was around but just was not there for him emotionally, mentally. I related to that in a big way because, growing up, it was my mother and grandmother that raised me and my brother and sisters. I'm the second youngest of five; my father was never in the picture.