Joe Casey, version 2.0: Variety.com's Bags and Boards concludes its two-part interview with Wildcats and Automatic Kafka writer Joe Casey:

"Lately, I’ve been content with the fact that if DC and Marvel do nothing but cool, slickly-produced superhero comicbooks, that’s fine. They shouldn’t be expected to be producing Shakespeare every month. Nor should they be expected to reinvent the wheel. That’s what companies like Dark Horse, Image, AiT/PlanetLar, Oni and Tokyopop are here for. Good pop art doesn’t necessarily have to be 'disposable' in a quality sense, but it’s the nature of pop to eat itself. What’s 'in' today? Let’s see it, let’s celebrate it, then let’s get it out of the way for the Next Big Thing. Now, if you take one step back from that, you can definitely find areas where subversion can occur. And that is what I’m interested in, to a certain degree. But, again, I’m also interested in creating some comic books that people can read, enjoy and then toss away. Whether or not they save the book as a piece of 'high art' has no bearing on whatever experience they had actually reading the thing."