SAN DIEGO — To survive in the brave new digital world, writer Grant Morrison thinks comic books need to get back to what the medium does best: big ideas.

“Let the artists go crazy, let the writers go crazy,” he says in the Wired.com video interview above, in which he pitches a return to the imaginative values of comics.

Morrison stopped by the Wired Cafe during Comic-Con International to discuss an industry’s struggling for direction in an era of declining print sales. He also holds forth on the place of superheroes in the modern world, a topic he explores in his new comic book history book, Supergods.

Wired.com video crew: Annaliza Savage, producer; Fernando Cardoso, Michael Lennon and Simon Lutrin, editors; Greg Stidham, camera.