Kurt Busiek Quotes About Superheroes

• Superhero creators who engage in deconstruction fall into two categories: There are the guys who do it because it's easy, because it gets an audience reaction if you point out that superheroes must be a bunch of psychotic nuts. And there are the guys who do it because they're actually interested, and they're trying to get at what's going on underneath. They're interested in the process and the results.

  Kurt Busiek

  Fall, Nuts, Two

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• I've always been positive about superheroes.

  Kurt Busiek

  Superhero

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• There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition.

  Kurt Busiek

  Hero, Thinking, People

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• I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

  Kurt Busiek

  Book, Thinking, Superhero

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• "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.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Order, Superhero

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• It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

  Kurt Busiek

  Simple, Years, Wind

  Kurt Busiek (2011). “Astro City: Life in the Big City (New Edition)”, p.9, DC

• 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.

  Kurt Busiek

  Emotional, Thinking, Superhero

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

  Kurt Busiek

  Drama, Superhero, Larger Than Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

• 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.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Superhero, Awful

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• 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.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Names, Superhero

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

• 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.

  Kurt Busiek

  Fun, Writing, Skills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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