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

“Okay, I’m biased ’cause I work at Marvel, but the Marvel heroes to me are, at their core, more honest. Superman has to put on a façade in order for the rest of humanity to relate to him, he has to become this bumbling guy Clark Kent. So at his core, Superman is a liar … he is! Whereas Peter Parker is Peter Parker, and like all of us when we put on masks we become that other person. So at his core Peter Parker is a much more honest character in the way he relates to the real world.”

– Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, on the difference between Marvel and DC characters

“Whatever it is, it’s going to involve one of the DC Universe’s most powerful supervillains — and you know it’ll be humongous, because he’s breaking out his superhero chess set!”

– GalleyCat’s Ron Hogan, on DC’s plans for Countdown

“It’s certainly refreshing to be able to write characters who speak the way I do, and who inhabit my world—although admittedly with slightly more supernatural nasties running around the place. Like the saying goes, ‘Write what you know.’ The first issue of Hellblazer describes Constantine as speaking with a ‘naff 1970s South London accent tinged with scouse,’ i.e. Liverpool. I was born and raised in South London in the ’70s, and my dad hailed from Liverpool, so for me it feels very much like coming home.

“I think the character, tone and style of Hellblazer all lend themselves well to writers from Britain, where the horror genre is probably more culturally resonant than the uniquely American superhero genre. Hellblazer’s cultural roots lie more in M.R. James and Clive Barker than Batman and Superman. And of course we’re a gloomy, sarcastic, pessimistic bunch, which fits Constantine to a T.”

– Hellblazer writer Andy Diggle, on the accessibility of John Constantine to British writers

“I did do quite a lot of research actually. Not that the story is historically correct in any sense. I learned as much as I could about the history, and then tried my best not to let the details overwhelm the story I had in mind. I was watching the commentary with the writer of the Deadwood television series and he said he pretty much did the same thing. Learned everything he could then tried his best for to forget it.”

– Nightmares and Fairy Tales writer Serena Valentino, on researching the “1140 Rue Royale” storyline

“It seems that people are getting really silly. It seems like politics and religion are mingling a little too much right now, and to each his own, but when you start telling other people how to live their lives, that’s a problem. I guess this is my punk rock moment.”

– cartoonist Eric Powell, on creating the Satan’s Sodomy Baby one-shot

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