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.
I am very big into superheroes.
I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that. . . that doesn't interest me very much.
I think I've got 12. . . Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Plastic-Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, The Justice League, The Atom Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans. . . . Just about all of their top titles.
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.
I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.
I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]. . . How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?
Superheroes in New York, Give me a break!
As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
Getting to play superheroes is a pretty good job.
I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.
I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.
Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!
I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.
I hung out with a lot of the riders to get their attitude and they're all like men. Men among boys. They have a certain calm to them which is really impressive. They go out there and they're racing 80 miles per hour, or jumping 60 foot jumps, I think they get all their adrenaline out. So during the day, they're just quiet, aloof and stoic superheroes kinda, you know what I mean? They're very, very respectful. It's a very family oriented sport. Everybody knows everybody so there's a lot of respect and understanding.
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.
I enjoyed 'The Avengers. ' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.
Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.