I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.