Mark Waid Quotes
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A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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You have watched the Titans walk the Earth … and you have kept stride. Perhaps you are more like them than you realize. You exist … to give hope.
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After ten years he has finally let free a wrath that would cower Satan himself. How can any man possibly calm the fury he feels towards his persecutors.
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If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.
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If you go back and look at the first issue of 'Indestructible Hulk,' if you have a sharp eye, you'll catch something that I totally forgot to put in there. In my horror, I only realized after the fact that I took totally for granted that everyone in the world knows what triggers the transformation.
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What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.
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I love print comics.
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Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
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What sets 'Archie' apart from the many, many times I've reworked and rebooted long-standing characters is that this time, it was really scary.
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When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them as individuals - but what you can exploit is their relationships with one another.
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I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.
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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.
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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.
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I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.
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Style and entertainment tastes change, but the core emotions of being a kid - which, not coincidentally, are the core foundations of any good story - are constant.
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The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
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I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.
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I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.
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Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.
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Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.
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It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything but can draw it better and more dynamically than you'd ever envisioned.
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I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.
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I'd still love to work with John Romita Sr. at some point. That's the dream.