Quotes by Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek

“Superhero” is a term that’s been borrowed in order to say “big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb.” And I don’t think that’s a useful definition. That’s more a dismissal.

Order

Superhero

Thinking

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.

Character

Names

Superhero

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.

Care

Littles

People

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I’d like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That’s my core identity.

Fun

Skills

Writing

I don’t view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

Party

Tools

Views

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Drama

Larger Than Life

Superhero

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don’t think it should be limited to.

Awful

Superhero

Thinking

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

Faces

Humanity

Thinking

I think James Bond is a spy. He’s not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies “comic-book movies.”

Book

Superhero

Thinking

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.

Emotional

Superhero

Thinking

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Awful

Book

Care

Character

Different

Done

Drama

Eight

Emotional

Faces

Fall

Formulas

Fun

Hero

Humanity

Ideas

Impact

Larger Than Life

Littles

Men

Metaphor

Names

Novel

Nuts

Order

Pages

Party

People

Pieces

Play

Purpose

Rage

Real

Reflection

Should

Simple

Skills

Stills

Stories

Strong

Superhero

Telling Stories

Thinking

Together Again

Tools

Trying

Two

Views

Wind

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Quotes by Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek

“Superhero” is a term that’s been borrowed in order to say “big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb.” And I don’t think that’s a useful definition. That’s more a dismissal.

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.

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 don’t view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don’t think it should be limited to.

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

I think James Bond is a spy. He’s not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies “comic-book movies.”

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.

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