No Matter How Good A Story Is,

You Can't Kill A Good Comic Book Series.

I Think It's Just The Challenge. It's Not That All My Life I've Wanted To Do Characters [in Marvel] , Because I Never Particularly Thought About It, But The Challenge Of Saying, "how Could They Be Done Differently That May Be More Absorbing Or More Effective?"

My Problem Is I Don't See And Hear That Well, So When I Go To The Movies, I Can Make Out What's Going On, But I Can't Hear What They're Saying. And After The Movie, I Have To Ask Whoever I'm With "now, What Was That All About?"

Some Artists, Such As Jack Kirby, Need No Plot At All. I Mean I'll Just Say To Jack, "let's Let The Next Villain Be Dr. Doom" ... Or I May Not Even Say That. He May Tell Me. And Then He Goes Home And Does It. He's So Good At Plots, I'm Sure He's A Thousand Times Better Than I. He Just Makes Up The Plots For These Stories. All I Do Is A Little Editing ... I May Tell Him That He's Gone Too Far In One Direction Or Another. Of Course, Occasionally I'll Give Him A Plot, But We're Practically Both The Writers On The Things.

If You Have A Character That Seems To Be All Perfect, It's Hard To Relate To Him Because When You Read A Story You Really Want To Empathize With The Character That You Are Reading About. And It's Hard To Empathize With Someone Who Is Flawless And Who Has No Problems.