Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

All culture must have arisen from cult.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.