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I do like Hank Pym.
I love print comics.
I love 'Archie' comics.
I know my 'Archie' history.
Juggling a huge cast is a bear.
Hulk fans are impossible to please.
Socrates should have written comics.
Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?
Every ongoing character has to start somewhere.
Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.
Younger characters are just much more emotional.
I think superheroes are about flying. They're not about moping.
Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.
I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.
I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.
The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.
In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.
I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.
We have a lot of supergeniuses in the Marvel universe, but very few of them are women.
Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin
I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book.
Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.
Never forget that at the end of the day, as a creative person, your résumé is all you've got.
I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.
There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
To my mind, a mix of veterans and rookies is number one on the list of 'things that make a good Avengers team.'
Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.
If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.
What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 year old fans want.
I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.
I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.
When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.
I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.
I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.
I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.
The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.
Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!
We want the reading experience of digital comics to be as simple as tapping a tablet or an arrow key or mouse button to move forward or back.
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.