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American - Writer Born: March 21, 1962

We're brought up to believe in a fairytale-romance sort of way that true love is out there and true loves don't care about what you look like and stuff, just what's down inside. And that's probably true, but what's also true, sadly, is that true loves are very rare and very hard to find.

Love True Love You Love Is

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

Heroism Regardless Backdrop

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

Me Bicycle Someone Enemies

Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong decisions are the heart of drama - a character who's always making the right decisions is boring.

Me Heart Character Decision

Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

Age People Digital Want

Captain America is an interesting character because it makes you ask those questions in yourself as a writer. What do we want as a nation, what do we mean as a nation, what is our role in the world as a nation? What are our strengths and weaknesses as a country?

You Character Yourself World

I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.

Responsibility Great Important Moral

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

Nature Internet Book Down

I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.

You Character Research Deep

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

Age You Fight Never

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There's a reason Archie didn't go the way of Betty Boop or Davy Crockett or Woody Woodpecker, forgotten relics of a bygone era, and it's because when 'Archie' stories are at their best, anyone of any age can see a little bit of themselves in them.

Best Age Way Go

I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.

I Am Tired Writing Down

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

Love Research Doing Just

Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the characters that have been around since before I was born and are probably going to outlive me.

Me Respect Born I Was Born

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

Hope Despair About Write

I do like Hank Pym.

It's Marvel's toybox; I'm just glad I'm able to play with the toys and have some impact on what goes on. I didn't create Daredevil, so I'm not about to stand here and say that I'm the only one who gets to play with the toy.

Stand Toys Play Say

Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.

Mean Invincible Does Indestructible

What sets 'Archie' apart from the many, many times I've reworked and rebooted long-standing characters is that this time, it was really scary.

Time Scary Really Apart

The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.

Your Consequences Idea Usual

Juggling a huge cast is a bear.

Bear Juggling Cast Huge

I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.

Love Stupid Perspective Hat

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

Work Really Knew Wanted

I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.

Know Events Some Books

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

Hope Way Enemy Someone

I think superheroes are about flying. They're not about moping.

Think Flying About I Think

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