Top 42 Brian Michael Bendis Quotes
#1. Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.
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#2. One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
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#4. The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.
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#5. I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.
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#7. I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!
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#8. I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in Powers, green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all there, but I was desperate to make sure that extra level was the case.
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#9. You better fucking tell us where your little buddies are, or I am going to kick your uterus out, you fucking cunt.
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#10. From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious like Mike Oeming's drawings. They're so unique to comics, but they're a voice.
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#11. Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.
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#12. But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.
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#13. Luke Cage: "It's my house! I paid for it with my own money!"
Iron Fist: "My money."
Luke Cage: "His money, but it's still my house!
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#14. The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who were desperate for that kind of material. They didn't say anything, didn't tell anybody.
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#15. I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.
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#16. A man once said, "There are only two questions man can ask himself that mean anything. Why did God create the world? And what do I do next?" ...
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#17. God gave me these hands for a reason!
With great powers come great handjobs!
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#18. I want to know what the hell made you think this was your job to do? Who made YOU the moral compass of us? How could you lay down with the people you've laid down with?? Tell me, 'Director Stark', was it worth it??
Was it WORTH it?!
TELL ME!
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#19. While talent will certainly open the door for you, it's about failing and knowing how to do so properly.
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#20. Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.
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#22. With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take us where we need to go any way you see fit. I tried to write something specifically for you. If you agree with my choices, fine. If not, you do what you have to do.'
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#25. Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn't exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.
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#26. And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
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#27. You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.
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#28. Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.
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#29. In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
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#30. I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.
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#32. I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.
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#33. The costumes aren't costumes they're uniforms. Uniforms mean something. At least to me. And while we wear them we represent something bigger. Something that symbolizes. We stand up.
- Captain America
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#34. Before the TV show of Jessica Jones, the response to Miles [Morales] is so overwhelming, and so constant, and it's been five years now. I can't even express to you how powerful it is on my end. It's overwhelming how much it was needed, that I didn't know that's what was needed.
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#35. This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.
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#36. I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.
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#37. Please don't be dead. Because then I'd have to be the Sorcerer Supreme and there's no way I could rock the 'stache.
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#38. I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.
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#39. If you're not falling, you're not really trying hard enough. JOE QUESADA Joe Quesada is an award-winning comics creator and the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, who served as editor-in chief of Marvel for over a decade.
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#40. The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.
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#41. The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.
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#42. And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.
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