“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.” KnowsNeedsKindPlayCharacterNamesAttitudeRolesReaderCostumes Author:Kurt Busiek
“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.” WellsIdeasMatterCharacterStrongConsciousnessFitEmptyImpactDefinitionsCoreCollectionsAttributes Author:Kurt Busiek
“I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.” ThinkingMenCharacterReaderVery StrongSpidersChildlikeSpider Man Author:Kurt Busiek
“I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.” TryingKindCharacterStoriesUsedBuildingMetaphorHeroicArchetype Author:Kurt Busiek
“The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.” DifferentCharacterMetaphorArchetype Author:Kurt Busiek
“If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.” IfsDoneCharacterStoriesMetaphor Author: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.” IfsCharacterThreeNamesFiveDefinitionsMissionsListsCodeRequirementsCostumesSuperheroSuperpowerMilieu Author:Kurt Busiek
