I'm lucky. 'Thor' has kicked off everything I'm doing, and it's been the greatest thing for me, but I am aware that I need to mix it up a bit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.
I thought 'Thor' would just be fun.
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.
It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.
I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.
Just the idea that no matter what Thor is up to he comes back to Earth is something special.
I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.
I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.