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I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.
Cliff Chiang
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Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others.
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I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.
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Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.
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Ditko isn't a direct influence, but I really admire his work and how his personality always comes through the drawing. There's a honest and quirky humanity to it, and you always feel the artist behind the comic. That's really rare.
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What impresses me the most about DC characters is how long a lot of them have been around.
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The New Gods really need to be larger than life. There's an operatic quality to them, and they need to be handled pretty carefully, or else you'll go too far and be almost like a caricature.
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There is a tendency for the New Gods to work best as guest stars.
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You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.
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One of the funny things about Wonder Woman is that everybody does love her. She does win everybody over at some point.
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A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.
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What I like about 'Paper Girls' in particular is that, because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more and think more of their interiority.
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