Kurt Busiek

The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt…

— Kurt Busiek

The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write…

— Kurt Busiek

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy…

— Kurt Busiek

"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb."…

— Kurt Busiek

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the…

— Kurt Busiek

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works,…

— Kurt Busiek

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

— Kurt Busiek

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like…

— Kurt Busiek

It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.

— Kurt Busiek

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used…

— Kurt Busiek

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw…

— Kurt Busiek

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done…

— Kurt Busiek

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a…

— Kurt Busiek

Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that.…

— Kurt Busiek

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

— Kurt Busiek

“And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be…

— Kurt Busiek

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

— Kurt Busiek

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a…

— Kurt Busiek

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was…

— Kurt Busiek

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put…

— Kurt Busiek

There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who…

— Kurt Busiek

Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing…

— Kurt Busiek

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

— Kurt Busiek

I've always been positive about superheroes.

— Kurt Busiek

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I…

— Kurt Busiek