At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a … - Kurt Busiek

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Kurt Busiek

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.

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What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.

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I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

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When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

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I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

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Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

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