We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
Grant MorrisonRead
And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.
Interpretation
What this quote means
People turn to comics as an escape from the harsh realities of life.
In this quote, Grant Morrison reflects on the power of comics as a medium that provides an escape from the often cruel and unheroic nature of reality. He suggests that readers seek solace in fantastical stories where heroes triumph, contrasting the comic world with the inevitable hardships and mortality faced in real life.
Themes
ComicsEscapeRealityLifeDeathFantasy
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about creativity and imagination, one could quote this to emphasize the importance of fiction in coping with life's hardships.
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American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.
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Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.
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