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" What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?' "

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" One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially. "

Neal Adams

Look

Done

People

" Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work. "

" People lie when they get upset. "

" 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. "

" One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there. "

Neal Adams

Know

Words

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "

" The great opportunity with Deadman was that you had a character that nobody had really done anything with - Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino created the character, which is terrific, but Carmine only did one issue with him - and it gave me a chance to do things that I hadn't seen done in comics all of my life. "

" I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover. "

" The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out. "

" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "

" I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. "

Neal Adams

America

Younger

" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "

" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "

" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "

" 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 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. "

Neal Adams

Kind

Limits

" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "

" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "

" Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. "

" I want a Superman that men will look up to - that somehow he manages to go out and work out and add muscles to his body that he wasn't born with necessarily, but that developed - as a person who takes care of himself and takes care of his health. "

" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "

" Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. "

" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all. "

" When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! "

Neal Adams

Nothing

Said

" 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. "

" For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman. "

" What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. "