The metaphor is the story, not the character..

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies.".

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd wri….

What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at th….

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors..

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't….

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it shou….

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one..

Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience….

Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attit….

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character….

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories..

Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we thi….

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think..

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom….

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it….

It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens..

There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys b….

The Hulk is rage personified, just, "I don't like something. Break it." And that's a great concept for a seven- or eight-year-old..

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I don't think that's a useful….

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect..