American - Writer | March 21, 1962 -
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
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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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Every ongoing character has to start somewhere.
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Hulk fans are impossible to please.
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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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I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.
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We have a lot of supergeniuses in the Marvel universe, but very few of them are women.
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When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.
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Younger characters are just much more emotional.
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I love writing comedy.
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I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
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I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
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