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I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.
She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.
I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.
The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.
Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.
And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. "Just fo feel. Just to feel something.
An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.
It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.
We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.
I absolutely love Aquaman, and the character has been a passion since 'Blackest Night.'
I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
Character is made up of a variety of different things. One of those elements is gender.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.
My view of Magneto is that he's the terrorist who might someday evolve into a statesman.
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that.
All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.
You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.
I'm contractually not allowed to work in comics in the United States other than for Marvel.
I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.
The big problem is time. I don't have enough of it to do all the things I think about doing.
It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted.
It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.
Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening.
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.
It wasn't until I'd met everyone else's measure of success that I realized I'd failed myself.
I do my very best to not allow external trends or zeitgeists to feed into what I'm producing.
Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.
You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.
I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.
When you're spending $100-plus million dollars, you need to give the audience what they want.
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.