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" My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I became an unemployed writer again. "
Tom King
Nice
Writer
Out
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" Batman's not mine. He doesn't necessarily belong to me. As a character, he belongs first to the audience and second to the hundreds of writers who have been writing him in comics for 75 years. "
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Character
" My first book is called 'Carry the Three.' It's definitely in a drawer, and it's terrible. I never sent it to anybody. My wife read it, but nobody else. "
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Three
Wife
Book
" I love continuity. I was a continuity nerd growing up. I loved buying a comic in the middle of something and loved digging for back issues or going forward and trying to figure it all out. "
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" When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words. "
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Words
See
" Sometimes I understand how Bruce Wayne feels. When you take down a terrorist or something, there's always six guys to take their place. Everyone is Hydra. But you still have to do it. "
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Understand
You
Sometimes
" I always felt like the 'outsider' kind of kid. "
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Outsider
Always
Felt
" When I was dealing with a lot of Iraqis, lies were constant; people constantly lied to you. It's a part of their culture. They wanted to please you so much, they were willing to lie to you to please you. "
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Culture
You
People
" I love comics for comics' sake. Always have. Always will. "
Tom King
Sake
Will
Love
" I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was much more appealing. "
Tom King
Started
Think
Energy
" I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.' "
Tom King
Weird
Book
Writer
" Not to get political, but it seems like every day I read the paper, and you're reading about nuclear war and Russians taking over the country and Nazis again. It's like every once in a while, the world blinks for a second, and it goes, 'Darkseid is!' The world has changed, and it's changed in a 'Darkseid is' way. "
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War
Day
Political
" I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it. "
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Impact
Experience
Past
" What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself. "
Tom King
Find
You
Yourself
" It's hard to find a unique look for a Batman villain. Everything like a scar on the face, or a skin condition, there are so many unique signifiers taken. "
Tom King
Look
Face
Unique
" I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing. "
Tom King
Lawyer
Mother
Become
" I've been the desperate writer before. I wrote a novel, and they paid me for it, and I've had those calls from my agent, and I'm like, 'Do you need me to ghost-write a vampire novel? What do you need? I'll do Transformers... tell me!' "
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Me
Like
Need
" If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible. "
Tom King
Joker
You
Ending
" I wanted to look like the most diverse writer in comics! Spy genre, space genre, crime genre, and then you realize that it's all actually the same thing. "
Tom King
Look
Space
You
" When I talk about the C.I.A. stuff, I feel guilt because I left. I really believed in that job, and my colleagues are still there. But I have kids now. "
Tom King
Talk
Now
Colleagues
" That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him. "
Tom King
Joker
Him
Detective
" I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page. "
Tom King
Experiences
Writing
Firm
" The idea of doing a buffer, sexier Riddler - I like that. I think he's a reflection of Batman, and I think of him like a scary, evil Batman. Like Bruce Wayne without a conscience. "
Tom King
Doing
Reflection
Scary
" I wanted to write about the Trump era, but I didn't want to write, 'Fascism sucks' or 'Trump sucks.' That doesn't get you anywhere. "
Tom King
Write
You
Want
" I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures. "
Tom King
Way
Ignore
Feel
" I grew up your classic nerd who was not good at throwing balls or kicking them. I was good at reading stories by myself. That was my specialty as a child. "
Tom King
Myself
Good
Classic
" It's good to be a cynic. I'm a cynic. But the best part of being a cynic is somebody proving you wrong. "
Tom King
Proving
You
Wrong
" It's funny, you know: my mother-in-law, who doesn't have an ounce of nerd in her, is just so excited by the fact that I write 'Batman' because she'll see an article about me in the 'Washington Post' or 'The Wall Street Journal' or something. And that means so much to me. "
Tom King
You
She
Me
" You throw sadness, you throw depression, you throw horror at Batman, he's like, 'Yeah, yawn, I've done that.' You throw happiness at him? That's something that riles him; that's something that he's not used to. "
Tom King
Sadness
Him
Happiness
" My dad left when I was young. I didn't have a dad. I'm part of that divorced generation and didn't want to do that to my kids, so I took a year off and became a full-time dad, changed diapers and all that while my wife worked. "
Tom King
Wife
Off
Generation
" That's my whole point as an artist - I'm trying to get you to turn a page. "
Tom King
Trying
Turn
Point