The More You Read, The Better You're

I Think People Have Always Loved Things That Are Bigger Than Life, Things That Are Imaginative.

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.

What Did Doctor Doom Really Want? He Wanted To Rule The World. Now, Think About This. You Could Walk Across The Street Against A Traffic Light And Get A Summons For Jaywalking, But You Could Walk Up To A Police Officer And Say "i Want To Rule The World," And There's Nothing He Can Do About It, That Is Not A Crime. Anybody Can Want To Rule The World. So, Even Though He Was The Fantastic Four's Greatest Menace, In My Mind, He Was Never A Criminal!

I'd Like To Own Intel... I'd Like To Own Microsoft... I'd Love To Have Warner Bros In My Hip Pocket.

Once, I'd Written A Western Story, And One Of The Panels Was Just A Hand Holding A Six-shooter, And There Was A Puff Of Smoke Coming Out Of The Barrel, And A Straight Horizontal Line, Indicating The Trajectory Of The Bullet. So That Page Was Sent Back To Me From The Code Office, Saying That The Particular Panel Was Too Violent. I Asked Them What They Meant, And They Told Me--i Swear--"the Puff Of Smoke Is Too Big." Well, Of Course. So I Had The Artist Make The Smoke A Little Smaller, And The Youth Of America Was Saved.