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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.
- Mark Waid
#Conversation
#Politics
#Sitting
#World
Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.
- Mark Waid
#Defeat
#Find
#History
#Me
#Victory
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.'
- Mark Waid
#Anything
#Character
#Me
#Say
#Whatever
When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.
- Mark Waid
#Bicycle
#Brown
#Enemies
#Me
#See
Juggling a huge cast is a bear.
- Mark Waid
#Bear
#Cast
#Huge
#Juggling
I'd still love to work with John Romita Sr. at some point. That's the dream.
- Mark Waid
#Dream
#Love
#Point
#Still
#Work
The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.
- Mark Waid
#Archie
#Consequences
#Lasting
#Your
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
- Mark Waid
#Head
#Like
#Over
#Up
#Want
Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.
- Mark Waid
#Does
#Indestructible
#Invincible
#Mean
Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store!
- Mark Waid
#Airport
#Me
#Own
#Short
#Start
We're brought up to believe in a fairytale-romance sort of way that true love is out there and true loves don't care about what you look like and stuff, just what's down inside. And that's probably true, but what's also true, sadly, is that true loves are very rare and very hard to find.
- Mark Waid
#Believe
#Look
#Love Is
#Love
#True Love
I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.
- Mark Waid
#Great
#Important
#Responsibility
#Values
Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.
- Mark Waid
#Backdrop
#Heroism
#Regardless
Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.
- Mark Waid
#Age
#Digital
#Everything
#Now
#People
#Want
If you're ruling the world, you can't trust anybody. Because even those who profess to be working in your interest - those are also villains in and of their own right.
- Mark Waid
#Interest
#Own
#Right
#Trust
#World
By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'
- Mark Waid
#Club
#Design
#Future
#Me
#Smile
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