Mark Waid Quotes
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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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I can see this, I suppose you could call it, aura of colors that words can't describe around living things. And when something dies the aura fades leaving something that's not easy to look at. It appears empty in a way that makes you feel empty too!
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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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If I wanted to write a bunch of comics about 50-year-olds sitting around having a conversation about politics, that would be realistic, but it'd be the dullest comic in the world.
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I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.
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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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The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
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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 love print comics.
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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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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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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 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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Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.
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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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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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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 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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Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.
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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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Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
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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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Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.