Jason Aaron

“I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.”

“To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.”

“Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.”

“Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.”

“I think it's our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.”

“There's a high level of communication between all of us at Marvel, and between Marvel and Lucasfilm.”

“If you liked my 'Ghost Rider' run, you're going to love what they're doing in 'Punisher.'”

“You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.”

“I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.”

“'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.”

“I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.”

“For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.”

“I think the oldest comic I got when I was a kid was an issue of 'World's Finest' - it had a Neal Adams cover with Batman where he had turned into a bat, and he was attacking Superman.”

“I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.”