I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpose and no strong parental figures, and kind of aimless. I walked out of that movie knowing that whatever my life was going to be from then on, it had to have something to do with Superman, because something touched me emotionally with Christopher Reeve's performance.
Mark WaidA superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism. Even if you bog it down with political allegory, or even if you're doing celebrity allegory. You still need to take the cynical out of it.
Mark WaidComics are expensive. Donโt make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters โ preferably both โ and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.
Mark Waid