Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you.
I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover.
It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.
People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma.
As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero.
I think that we want to believe in Superman.
I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers.
People lie when they get upset.
It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes.
I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea.
I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page.
What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.
I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.
Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.
I live in New York and California, and I get to travel.
For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman.
When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was.
I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie.
I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger.
Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work.
