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Jason Aaron Quotes

I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who’d wake up every day and look at that hammer and not know whether he was going to pick it up. Only the worthy can lift the hammer of Thor, and I love the idea of a god who was always questioning his own worthiness.

– Jason Aaron

I’m intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

– Jason Aaron

I went back and started reading with Thor’s first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.

– Jason Aaron

Over the course of my entire Wolverine career, I went from being a single guy to getting married and having kids, and I think you can see that progression in the way that I treated Wolverine.

– Jason Aaron

Yes, you know Luke Skywalker isn’t going to die in issue #3. But that doesn’t mean you’ve seen every Luke Skywalker story there is to tell.

– Jason Aaron

Thankfully, I have a job where it does not matter in the least what I look like.

– Jason Aaron

While the whole ‘God Butcher Saga’ had elements of fantasy, sci-fi and horror all mixed together, ‘The Accursed’ is very much high-fantasy. Right out of the gate, we’ve got elves, talk of fantastic worlds, strange creatures, Malekith riding a flying tiger, as well as more dwarves, giants, trolls and elves than you can possibly count.

– Jason Aaron

I don’t really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it’s just I don’t know what to do with that sort of alter ego.

– Jason Aaron

I’m just trying to create characters and tell stories.

– Jason Aaron

I’m happy I can sit home in my office and make up stories about superheroes. And I only have to deal with a pretty limited amount of people to get those comics produced.

– Jason Aaron

‘Original Sin’ is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

– Jason Aaron

Plot-wise, there’s nothing particularly groundbreaking about ‘Scalped.’ It starts off as something we’ve seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.

– Jason Aaron

I think it’s our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

– Jason Aaron

You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.

– Jason Aaron

You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.

– Jason Aaron

I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody’s raised Christian, but at this point, I’m 41 years old, and I’ve been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

– Jason Aaron

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they’ve been very good at mining the comics.

– Jason Aaron

You’re always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what’s come before.

– Jason Aaron

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

– Jason Aaron

I just remember how cool and exciting and crazy it seemed when Marvel was giving this new ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ title to this crime writer Brian Michael Bendis who had never really done any superhero stuff before.

– Jason Aaron

Overall, I’m happy how ‘Original Sin’ has come together. It’s an amalgam of all I’ve done at Marvel, mixing the gritty, violent ‘Punisher Max’ stuff with the zany, light-hearted ‘Wolverine & The X-Men’ work.

– Jason Aaron

To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize with at times. Maybe you sympathize with them one moment; the next moment, they do something truly atrocious, and you feel bad you ever sympathized with them in the first place.

– Jason Aaron

Hopefully I’m learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.

– Jason Aaron

Putting together a list of heroes for ‘Original Sin’ was a long process, just like figuring out the villains. Along the way, some were taken out, and a few more were added.

– Jason Aaron

I don’t know about young Thor and King Thor getting their own series someday, although it would be nice if I could write three Thor series at the same time.

– Jason Aaron

As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the ’80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez ‘New Teen Titans.’ That was definitely the book that hooked me.

– Jason Aaron

Anyone who’s been reading my stuff can see that there’s a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

– Jason Aaron

From the get-go, ‘Original Sin’ was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.

– Jason Aaron

There’s a high level of communication between all of us at Marvel, and between Marvel and Lucasfilm.

– Jason Aaron

An important part of any good mystery story like ‘Original Sin’ is that it’s not just a game of ‘Clue’ with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it’s far from the whole story.

– Jason Aaron

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