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" All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us. "
Tribal
Us
People
" At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write 'Spider-Man,' 'Green Lantern,' whatever was lying around. 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it's almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity. "
Black
Way
Phone
" Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.' "
Together
American
Eyes
" Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world. "
Real
Used
World
" Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it. "
Focus
Work
Together
" I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell. "
Tough
Want
Write
" I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on. "
Say
Work
Think
" If I could make Panther tough, mysterious, wily, and often at odds with his 'Avengers' comrades, that was a character I'd find interesting. "
Find
Interesting
Character
" If the League were real, today, they'd most likely be sued by every person they ever saved. They'd be subpoenaed by every authority in every jurisdiction imaginable; hearings upon hearings. There'd be waves of accolades followed by tsunamis of boos from social media. "
Media
Today
Waves
" If you could access 90 percent of your brain, you'd be Charles Xavier. "
Brain
Could
Percent
" In 'Black Panther,' I tried to preserve virtually all versions and interpretations of 'Black Panther' - including the Jack Kirby one, which was really tough to do - and make it work within current continuity. "
Black
Work
Within
" In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to a paycheck than in doing work they can be proud of. "
More
Proud
Experience
" I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire. "
Satire
Thought
Never
" I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with. "
Way
Want
Think
" I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves. "
Search
Writer
Trying
" I think, personally, nothing comes from violence other than more violence. "
Violence
Think
Other
" It made absolutely no sense to me why Panther would ever join a super-hero team; he's not a super-hero, and the record shows he did a whole lot of nothing most of the time. "
Me
No Sense
Nothing
" I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts. "
Genius
Me
Storytelling
" Literally everything that could be done with the 'Justice League' has been done with the 'Justice League.' "
Been
Justice
Everything
" Lots of things that go on in mainstream superhero comics are just stupid. They just show up on the page, and no one makes any mention of it. "
Show
Up
Superhero
" There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is. "
Art
Writing
Secular
" The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape and putting an 'S' on its chest. "
Work
Just
Writing
" When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing Marvel's 'Batman,' and Reverend Achebe became sort of the Joker to Panther's Batman. "
Angry
Me
Joker
" With all due respect to the other writers, I don't want to disparage any other writers; I don't want to have to invent a bigger villain than Deathstroke so Deathstroke can seem heroic fighting this bigger villain. I'd rather just have Deathstroke be who is, and he's kind of a bastard. "
Fighting
Want
Villain
" Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence. "
Book
Writing
Challenges
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