I Thought I Could Capture The Stories

Because It All Derived From Superman. I Mean, I Love All The Characters, But Superman Is Just This Perfect Human Pop-culture Distillation Of A Really Basic Idea. He's A Good Guy. He Loves Us. He Will Not Stop In Defending Us. How Beautiful Is That? He's Like A Sci-fi Jesus. He'll Never Let You Down. And Only In Fiction Can That Guy Actually Exist, Because Real Guys Will Always Let You Down One Way Or Another. We Actually Made Up An Idea That Beautiful. That's Just Cool To Me. We Made A Little Paper Universe Where All Of The Above Is True.

I Am Happy”. They Understood What We English People Have Long Forgot. We're Not Our Sadness. We're Not Our Happiness Or Our Pain But Our Language Hypnotizes Us And Traps Us In Little Labelled Boxes ()

I Think That Superhero Comics In Particular Are Really Useful For Talking About Big Emotions And Feelings, And Personifying And Concretizing Symbols.

If Our Shallow, Self-critical Culture Sometimes Seems To Lack A Sense Of The Numinous Or Spiritual It's Only In The Same Way A Fish Lacks A Sense Of The Ocean.

There Are Dozens Of Unfinished Or Aborted Projects In My Files, But I Can Only Assume They Don't Get Done Because They're Not Robust Enough To Struggle Through The Birth Process.