I've always been positive about superheroes.

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 tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

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

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.