Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters — preferably both — and every panel that… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
To my mind, a mix of veterans and rookies is number one on the list of 'things that make a good Avengers team.' — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it’s also the artist’s story, and if you’re working with an illustrator who’s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you… — Mark Waid Copy Share
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.)… — Mark Waid Copy Share
You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Because, I'm not paying $15 for a movie to go watch people being morose about lives that are much more interesting and exciting than mine and they hate them. I'm paying my money to… — Mark Waid Copy Share
