Mark Waid

“I like being able to have a conversation. I like being able to do a vocal interview.”

“Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.”

“I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.”

“I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.”

“The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.”

“When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.”

“I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.”

“I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.”

“I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.”

“I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.”

“What sets 'Archie' apart from the many, many times I've reworked and rebooted long-standing characters is that this time, it was really scary.”

“I do like Hank Pym.”

“I love writing comedy.”

“By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'”

“Know what your characters want, know what they need most, know what they fear most, and don't be fearful of facing it, no matter how unpleasant it may be.”

“Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.”

“The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about anything.”

“What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 year old fans want.”

“There's a reason Archie didn't go the way of Betty Boop or Davy Crockett or Woody Woodpecker, forgotten relics of a bygone era, and it's because when 'Archie' stories are at their best, anyone of any age can see a little bit of themselves in them.”

“We're brought up to believe in a fairytale-romance sort of way that true love is out there and true loves don't care about what you look like and stuff, just what's down inside. And that's probably true, but what's also true, sadly, is that true loves are very rare and very hard to find.”