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..

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 could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watc….

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it..

The metaphors exist for the stories..

The metaphor is the story, not the character..

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaph….

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….

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….