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" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "
Ryan North
Made
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Priority
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" A huge potential audience, great interaction with your readers, the ability to see what people like and what they don't, the ability to see how people respond to what you're doing in real-time - there's just tons of great stuff that you get by being online. "
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Doing
" I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour. "
Ryan North
You
Travel
Time
" The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch. "
Ryan North
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" As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal. "
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" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
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" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "
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" I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points. "
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" Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full. "
Ryan North
Think
Me
Never
" Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. "
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Sometimes
Feel
Like
" I believe good writing can save bad art. "
Ryan North
Good
Writing
Believe
" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "
Ryan North
Sort
Draw
Being
" You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. "
Ryan North
Person
You
Everyone
" The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates. "
Ryan North
Book
Explore
Fun
" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "
Ryan North
Dude
Friends
Anchor
" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "
Ryan North
Being
Work
Well
" What I thought would be fun would be Squirrel Girl being this computer science student, working in STEM, because you don't see a lot of characters there, never mind female characters. Also, I studied computer science, so it's not too hard to write. "
Ryan North
Fun
Girl
Science
" I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours. "
Ryan North
Love
People
Man
" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
Ryan North
Thought
Interesting
Gold
" I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time. "
Ryan North
Art
Great
Succeed
" There may be this hidden, hate-filled community of online cartoonists, but if there are, I haven't found it yet. We're all generally pretty nice people, it turns out! "
Ryan North
Community
Hidden
Nice
" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
Ryan North
Everything
Should
I Write
" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "
Ryan North
Still
Dumb
Everyone
" I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.' "
Ryan North
Think
Character
Crazy
" The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.' "
Ryan North
Right
Song
Theme
" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "
Ryan North
People
Things
Doing
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
Ryan North
Write
Satisfying
Story
" There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including children. And the difference usually manifests in not talking down to kids. "
Ryan North
Children
Talking
Literature
" The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time. "
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Girl
She
People
" The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us. "
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Point Of View
Point
View
" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "
Ryan North
Out
Maybe
Missed