From Now On, I'm Opting For Ontological

We Tell Our Children They're Trapped Like Rats On A Doomed, Bankrupt, Gangster-haunted Planet With Dwindling Resources, With Nothing To Look Forward To But Rising Sea Levels And Imminent Mass Extinctions, Then Raise A Disapproving Eyebrow When, In Response, They Dress In Black, Cut Themselves With Razors, Starve Themselves, Gorge Themselves, Or Kill One Another.

Whatever You Do, Make Sure You Go Right To The Top, Because You Sure As Hell Can't Piss Upwards On People.

With Marvel And Dc, You're Working With Their Pre-established Fictional Universes And Characters. At Those Places, You're Working With Characters Who Will Outlive You And Maybe Your Children And Your Childern's Children. Batman Will Outlive Me, Spider-man Will Outlive Me, The Avengers Will Outlive Me, And So It Goes.

The World Gets More Like Disneyland Every Day, And It's The Same The Other Way Round. I Can't Explain What I Know. Try Explaining Red To A Dog And See How Fast He Gets Bored.

Write Comic Books If You Love Comic Books So Much That You Want To Write Them. Don't Write Them Like Movies. Comics Can Do A Lot Of Things That Movies Can't Do, And Vice Versa.