Mark Waid Quotes
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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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I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.
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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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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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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 idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
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To my mind, a mix of veterans and rookies is number one on the list of 'things that make a good Avengers team.'
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I love print comics.
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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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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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I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
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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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A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
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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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I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.
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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 like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.
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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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The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
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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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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.
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When they first asked me to do 'Hulk,' my first instinct was to say no because I didn't think I had anything to say with the character, especially when they said, 'Please do what you did with 'Daredevil,' whatever that was.'
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I'd still love to work with John Romita Sr. at some point. That's the dream.
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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.