Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collab…

- Mark Waid

One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to thin…

- Mark Waid

Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or dem…

- Mark Waid

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpo…

- Mark Waid

The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave…

- Mark Waid

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

- Mark Waid

You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Be…

- Mark Waid

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory,…

- Mark Waid

It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

- Mark Waid