Mark Waid Quotes
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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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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'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
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There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.
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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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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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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
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I love print comics.
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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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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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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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A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
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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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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 respect people of faith, but I'm not one.
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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 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 best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.
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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.
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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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Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.
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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.