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" All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience. "

Mark Waid

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" I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979. "

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" Juggling a huge cast is a bear. "

" Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible. "

" There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword. "

" You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety. "

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" A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. "

" Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop. "

" Hulk fans are impossible to please. "

" 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. "

" The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope. "

" It's Marvel's toybox; I'm just glad I'm able to play with the toys and have some impact on what goes on. I didn't create Daredevil, so I'm not about to stand here and say that I'm the only one who gets to play with the toy. "

" I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s. "

" 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. "

" If you go back and look at the first issue of 'Indestructible Hulk,' if you have a sharp eye, you'll catch something that I totally forgot to put in there. In my horror, I only realized after the fact that I took totally for granted that everyone in the world knows what triggers the transformation. "

" I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope. "

" When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle. "

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" 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 think superheroes are about flying. They're not about moping. "

" Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring. "

" If I wanted to write a bunch of comics about 50-year-olds sitting around having a conversation about politics, that would be realistic, but it'd be the dullest comic in the world. "