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2.\u00a0Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.<\/em><\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg)
Source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n3.\u00a0Marvel is a cornucopia of fantasy, a wild idea, a swashbuckling attitude, an escape from the humdrum and prosaic.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n4.\u00a0It\u2019s a serendipitous feast for the mind, the eye, and the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the dragon.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n5.\u00a0Comics are stories; they\u2019re like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n6.\u00a0Life is never complete without its challenges.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n7.\u00a0I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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3.\u00a0Marvel is a cornucopia of fantasy, a wild idea, a swashbuckling attitude, an escape from the humdrum and prosaic.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n4.\u00a0It\u2019s a serendipitous feast for the mind, the eye, and the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the dragon.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n5.\u00a0Comics are stories; they\u2019re like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n6.\u00a0Life is never complete without its challenges.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n7.\u00a0I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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4.\u00a0It\u2019s a serendipitous feast for the mind, the eye, and the imagination, a literate celebration of unbridled creativity, coupled with a touch of rebellion and an insolent desire to spit in the eye of the dragon.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n5.\u00a0Comics are stories; they\u2019re like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n6.\u00a0Life is never complete without its challenges.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n7.\u00a0I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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5.\u00a0Comics are stories; they\u2019re like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n6.\u00a0Life is never complete without its challenges.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n7.\u00a0I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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6.\u00a0Life is never complete without its challenges.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n7.\u00a0I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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7.\u00a0I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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8.\u00a0And then I began to realise: entertainment is one of the most important things in people\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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9.\u00a0Without it, they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you\u2019re able to entertain people, you\u2019re doing a good thing.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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10.\u00a0If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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11.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]\u2026 How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC\u2019s top superheroes?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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12.\u00a0The only advice anybody can give is if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
13.\u00a0I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there\u2019s good in every person.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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14.\u00a0Technology isn\u2019t a villain. Technology should help, but if you just use the technology for the sake of technology, then you\u2019re cheating your audience.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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15.\u00a0All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, \u201cI hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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16.\u00a0Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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17.\u00a0It\u2019s just; it\u2019s fun to stay in the game.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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18.\u00a0With great power comes great responsibility.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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19.\u00a0If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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20.\u00a0Comic books sort of follow with the move.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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21.\u00a0Reading is very good. And you can quote me!\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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22.\u00a0Excelsior!<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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23.\u00a0What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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24.\u00a0\u201cI want to rule the world.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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25.\u00a0I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
26.\u00a0\u201cYou can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn\u2019t want to see it on the stage?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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27.\u00a0I\u2019m happiest when I\u2019m working. If I\u2019m not working, I feel like I\u2019m wasting my time.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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28.\u00a0Just because you have superpowers, that doesn\u2019t mean your love life would be perfect.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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29.\u00a0The more you read, the better you\u2019re going to become as a storyteller.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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30.\u00a0If there are people who like the work you\u2019ve done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that\u2019s really gratifying.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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31.\u00a0I had been writing comic books for years, and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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32.\u00a0And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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33.\u00a0Most people say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to retire so I can play golf,\u201d or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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34.\u00a0If I got a superpower I wouldn\u2019t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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35.\u00a0To my way of thinking, whether it\u2019s a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you\u2019ve got to care about the characters.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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36.\u00a0If the characters are interesting, you\u2019re half-way home.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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37.\u00a0When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don\u2019t think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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38.\u00a0I never thought that Spider-Man would become the worldwide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I\u2019d keep my job.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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39.\u00a0These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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40.\u00a0I\u2019ve been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and Iron Man lunchboxes and The Avengers sweatshirts everywhere.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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41.\u00a0I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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42.\u00a0I don\u2019t really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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43.\u00a0I don\u2019t know where the hell I\u2019ll be in 5 years. Maybe I\u2019ll be producing movies maybe I\u2019ll be on a corner selling apples. I don\u2019t know, but I\u2019m having a hell of a lot of fun.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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44.\u00a0Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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45.\u00a0If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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46.\u00a0Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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47. Singing a song, playing sports \u2013 anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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48.\u00a0There\u2019s never a time when I\u2019m not working. I don\u2019t take vacations.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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49.\u00a0I\u2019m very proud of being a hack. It\u2019s why I\u2019ve lived as long as I have, I think.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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50.\u00a0I don\u2019t wake up in the morning and say, wow I\u2019ve got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let\u2019s see.<\/em><\/h2>\nSource<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Rest in power, Stan Lee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keep moving forward, if it’s time to go. It’s time. The world of comic books wouldn’t have been what it is today, without Stan Lee’s imagination. But, I guess we didn’t realise that he wasn’t meant to live forever! The shocking news of Stan Lee’s death left Marvel and superhero fanatics heartbroken! He left behind […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35],"tags":[1016,1015,1014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12443,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions\/12443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}