The metaphor is the story, not the character.

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

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I don't know that it's a necessary part of the appeal that the superhero be superior.

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

The metaphor is the story, not the character.