Mark Waid

Writer

1962-03-21

Quotes by Mark Waid

• Socrates should have written comics.

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• Socrates should have written comics.

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• Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

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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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• Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.

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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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• I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.

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• We want the reading experience of digital comics to be as simple as tapping a tablet or an arrow key or mouse button to move forward or back.

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• All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience.

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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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• 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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• The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.

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• Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.

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• 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!

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• In Marvel Comics, the worst thing was always that your loved ones could be attacked, or you could be horribly beaten in a knock-down, drag-out fight, but in the Superman comics, you would be run out of town with people throwing rotten vegetables at you and waving a sign that said, 'Superman, Who Needs You?'

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• Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

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