Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.
There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.