Mark Millar

“I wanted to do a story where the bad guys win.”

“The great thing about superheroes is that they speak to the best in us.”

“In real life, there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”

“My job is to give people a good time. And if I can give them something to think about, that's a bonus.”

“Superman is the best character of all time. It's not even a competition.”

“I like the idea of the superhero as a celebrity.”

“Ideas are the easiest part of the creative process.”

“He's a guy who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of what time he went to bed.”

“I just want to make comics that are fun to read.”

“You get a little bit of a thrill when you see your name on a book.”

“Comics are a director's medium. You're the director, you're the writer, you're the production designer.”

“I always wanted to do 'what if superheroes really existed?'”

“Your life is the one romance that you're guaranteed to have.”

“Everything I'm doing is a love letter to the stuff I loved as a kid.”

“I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we left a mark. That we were here.”

“The best ideas are the simplest ones.”

“The ultimate authority is the reader. We're in a service industry.”

“What I'm interested in is the superhero as a social phenomenon.”

“Kids don't want to be Spiderman's sidekick. They want to be Spiderman.”

“This is what I do for a living, and it's a great job.”