Joss Whedon Quotes

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I found Slott's version of 'She-Hulk' first, and then I went back and looked up some of the older stuff because I liked it so much. And it was so good. It was perfect. It was my perfect comic book at the time that I found it.

I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

'Spawn' was my favorite growing up, but I loved 'X-Men' and the 'Hulk' too.

'The Flash' comics are visually amazing and so well done. I wish I had been introduced to them when I was growing up.

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics.

I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."

I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover.

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

I do like comic book movies, but only the ones that I read as a kid.

I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.