A selection of some of the funniest, most interesting and strangest quotes from the past week:

“People ask me why I enjoy being a manga editor so much, and I usually say something serious about manga being an important art form or some other splendid lie. But really, there’s one reason: I do it for the toys.”

– Tricia Narwani, Del Rey editorial associate, in the latest Del Rey Manga Newsletter

“The cat master is a serious dude that is trained in the dark arts of cat, trained to use a cat as the ultimate tool or weapon for any situation. With the right injection the cat can become anything: cat periscope, cat-apult anything. And on top of that, the cat’s a genius that can solve any problem or perform any kind of brain surgery or rocket science that Joe might need. It really puts a utility belt to shame.

“The first book just follows Joe and his cat but the idea was that there’s cat masters all over the world, each one with his own adventures going on. …

“I’m putting together book 2 right now where a bunch of cat masters show up and it’s been a fun time. I’ve got a guy that wears like 50 black cats as a fur coat and another guy that has a Manx: a cat of none tails.”

– King City creator Brandon Graham, explaining one of the best concepts ever

“He lived in a different universe. He had his own little corner of Creation where tigers talked and worms were super-villains and a grown man could have the sensibility of a child. That sort of thing just didn’t happen in Superman’s universe. It would seem a mistake, for example, to try to pair the two of them in the same story — at least without suspending the protocols of reality for at least one of them.”

– writer Elliot S! Maggin, on what separates Captain Marvel from Superman

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