When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
I came to comic books when I was about 15.
I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.
I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.