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Mark Waid
Mark Waid
American Writer
Born: Mar 21, 1962
Comics Love Me Think World You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. Mark Waid
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Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop. Mark Waid
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Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible. Mark Waid
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There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword. Mark Waid
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I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy. Mark Waid
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I love what Max Landis is doing with 'Superman: American Alien.' That's a really good book. Mark Waid
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The beauty of Captain America is that you didn't have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn't have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero. Mark Waid
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The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about anything. Mark Waid
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Flash is about freedom; Flash is about expression. Flash is about just the joy of exuberant running and of freedom, and the moment you weight him down with too much Batman-like baggage... that's not the Flash anymore. Mark Waid
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When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them as individuals - but what you can exploit is their relationships with one another. Mark Waid
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Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted. Mark Waid
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It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything but can draw it better and more dynamically than you'd ever envisioned. Mark Waid
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I was the last guy I imagined anyone would ever associate with 'Daredevil,' but once I gave the character some thought, much like with the 'Fantastic Four,' I found my hooks and, I think, some angles on the series that have never been explored. Mark Waid
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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 think there are things that digital can't do as well as print thus far. Even an iPad is only 80% the size of a standard comics page, so the images are going to be smaller. You don't get your big, whopping two-page spreads. Mark Waid
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I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around. Mark Waid
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Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics. Mark Waid
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If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page. Mark Waid
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I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap. Mark Waid
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Jan. 26, 1979, was the most important day of my life. Because that's the day that I saw 'Superman: The Movie.' I came out of it knowing that no matter what the rest of my life was going to be like, it had to involve Superman somehow. Mark Waid
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The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube. Mark Waid
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I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it. Mark Waid
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I love print comics. Mark Waid
Love Print Comics
Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now. Mark Waid
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Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country? Mark Waid
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I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values. Mark Waid
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