Top 16 Mark Waid Quotes
#1. Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses ... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.
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#2. Socrates should have written comics.
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#3. Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin
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#4. If you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause ... then get your pathetic, cynical ass out of my way so I can do my job!
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#5. Each time I think I've made a connection with someone ... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.
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#6. Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!
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#7. Crushing people is the truth's hobby.
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#8. 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 their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.
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#9. Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.
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#10. When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.
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#11. 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 demonstrate something important about the characters - preferably both - and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.
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#12. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.
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#13. Under oath and with God and the media as my witness, I'm telling you that I am Daredevil. Always have been, always will be.
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#14. Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?
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#15. It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
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#16. Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?
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