CBR: IDW announced a new series written by you called “Epilogue” which is a superhero vampire comic. You’ve played on both sides of that equation separately, but why was this the time and the project to merge your two interests?

Steve Niles: I just think the time had come. It was really funny. I’d done horror versions of Batman, and I’m trying to do superhero versions of horror characters like Simon Dark. I’ve been straddling this character for a while, and when I sat down to think about what motivates superheroes and what I like about them, I thought, “Here’s a guy who’s not only going to lose his family like Batman or Spider-Man, but he loses his family to the exact thing that gives him his powers.” That is just the greatest motivation I could think of.

I just love it that this guy would transform into a vampire, which would keep him alive, but vampires murdered his wife and kids and transformed him into what he is. He is absolutely enemies with vampires and is going against their ways in that he’s decided to us his “powers” ” and I hesitate to even use that word ” for good. To reconcile the fact that he has to feed on blood, the way he works it out is that he will only feed on criminals. We hit this running, and he’s using this. He’ll hunt and feed on and kill anybody who hurts other people. If you don’t you’ve got nothing to worry about.

Full interview here.