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 works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.
I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think. - Kurt Busiek
I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
- Kurt Busiek
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies." - Kurt Busiek
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."
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… - Kurt Busiek
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…
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. - Kurt Busiek
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party. - Kurt Busiek
I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect. - Kurt Busiek
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens. - Kurt Busiek
It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.
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… - Kurt Busiek
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…
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… - Kurt Busiek
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…
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