The metaphor is the story, not the character..

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hu….

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

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..

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

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

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….

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….

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….

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party..

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

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

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….

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right..

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it….

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….

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….

The metaphors exist for the stories..

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

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….

I've always been positive about superheroes..