Mark Waid Quotes
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By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
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Across the world, new roles are embraced … new alliances forged. After far too long a time, the gods have chosen to work with mankind towards a common good. Only one works alone.
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Flash is about freedom; Flash is about expression. Flash is about just the joy of exuberant running and of freedom, and the moment you weight him down with too much Batman-like baggage... that's not the Flash anymore.
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Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.
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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.
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It's Marvel's toybox; I'm just glad I'm able to play with the toys and have some impact on what goes on. I didn't create Daredevil, so I'm not about to stand here and say that I'm the only one who gets to play with the toy.
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I love writing comedy.
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Every ongoing character has to start somewhere.
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I wouldn't mind taking a stab at... I'd love to take a shot at 'Doctor Strange' at some point.
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I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.
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I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.
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All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience.
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Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.
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I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.
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I do like Hank Pym.
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I'm a big veteran of being able to, in one comic, explain to you everything that you need to know to get forward in the story without you having to refer back to years of continuity and a universe in these superhero comics.
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When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very continuity-driven, super-heroic, and ethics and morals-infused. 'Empire' was a chance to break away from that.
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I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.
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Jan. 26, 1979, was the most important day of my life. Because that's the day that I saw 'Superman: The Movie.' I came out of it knowing that no matter what the rest of my life was going to be like, it had to involve Superman somehow.
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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.
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In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.
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I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.
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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.