A selection of some of the funniest, most interesting and strangest quotes from the past week:
“I like her, she’s a very nice, lovely girl.”
– Stan Lee, discussing Paris Hilton
“The way I look at the books is this: Jack was telling the story of this great cosmic war that was enveloping the Earth. In New Gods, you had the war as seen on the front lines by the primary warriors who were engaged in the battle.
“In Forever People, you saw their children, for whom war still has romance. It still has a kind of a glitter, an attractiveness. And so they fight it, but for them, it’s a great adventure. They’re having the adventure of a lifetime.
“In Mr. Miracle, you have the war from the point of view of the conscientious objector. These books were coming out during the Vietnam War, when there was a lot of concern about whether we, as a nation, should be fighting a war.
“In Jimmy Olsen, you see the war at the very bottom level, from the mortal point of view — how this whole thing affects ordinary men and women. Well, as much as anybody in a Kirby comic can be an ordinary man and woman.
“But it was so far beyond what anybody else was doing with superheroes. It was a treasure.”
– writer-artist Walt Simonson, on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World epic
“It’s different, that’s for sure. We’re creating the rules as we go. It’s also my first real, straightforward superhero book. Iron Fist isn’t necessarily a straightforward superhero and neither is Punisher. This is straightforward like, ‘Hey, that guy has a cape, shooting rays out of his hand.’”
– writer Matt Fraction, on how working on The Champions differs from working on his other Marvel titles
“It’s like a weekend at a spa. … You have a creative concept and instead of going through an endless array of suits to realize it, instead of spending millions of dollars of someone else’s money to realize it — which is why the suits come along — you give it to an artist.”
– writer and filmmaker Joss Whedon, preferring the comics industry to Hollywood
