I’m a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.
The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it’s the same the other way round. I can’t explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.
A bullet in the right place can change the world.
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.
From now on, I’m opting for ontological terrorism.
He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don’t write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can’t do, and vice versa.
It’s always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they’re rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there’s no longer the merchandising aspect.
I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can’t allow their opinions to dictate story direction.
Kipling: Where’s your sense of humor? Rebis: We’re working on reconstructing it...
It’s stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.
It’s salt. Why don’t you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren’t I just good enough to eat?
Superman loves everyone. He’s like Jesus except he punches people.
The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the ‘X-Men’ movies.
When was the last time you had a thought that wasn’t put there by THEM?
I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.
Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.
We’re the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
I couldn’t think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.