somewhere that felt like me. new york felt more like me but not 100%. mobile is always a part of me whether i want it to be or not. and since family is here i'm always coming back. >> you grew up here and lived here more than i did. but you also had the dad's in new york. >> the summer. >> you were doing the opposite what i was doing. >> for a few years, yeah, we were swapping places which was frustrating because you were the only person i could talk to about comic books and latest geeky tv show. >> yeah. >> we were such nerds. but 80s weird city to be a nerd in. >> especially a black nerd. as a writer your job is to create literally fantastic worlds and fantastic images. >> yeah. >> how much of that if any of that was informed by growing up here? >> a lot. >> yeah flew i'm writing in fantastic worlds but still writing about people, rarldless of the planet they're on. and that systems and networks of