Age Quote by Chris Claremont

I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.

— David S. Goyer

Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what's going on in the real world…

— Sebastian Stan

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a…

— Adam Frank

People try to pigeonhole comics by saying they're just for kids. So is The Odyssey. So is the Labors of Hercules, the story of…

— Chris Claremont

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."

— Tom Cavanagh

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of…

— John Boorman

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

— Reginald Hudlin

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or…

— Clark Gregg

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

— Kerry James Marshall

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.

— Shel Silverstein

Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The fun of superhero comics is finding ways to turn the pieces that you know so that they're suddenly about things that you want…

— Scott Snyder