Kurt Busiek

Writer

1960-09-16

Quotes by Kurt Busiek

• Maybe I had a secret identity, but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as me. The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

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• Maybe I had a secret identity, but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as me. The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

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• When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

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

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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.

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• Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.

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