Mark Waid Quotes
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The beauty of Captain America is that you didn't have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn't have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero.
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The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
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I was the last guy I imagined anyone would ever associate with 'Daredevil,' but once I gave the character some thought, much like with the 'Fantastic Four,' I found my hooks and, I think, some angles on the series that have never been explored.
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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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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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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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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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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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I love print comics.
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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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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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A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
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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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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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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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I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
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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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The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
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Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.
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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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I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.