“I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially...” — Mark Waid Quote

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.

Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.

The idea of lasting consequences isn't your usual 'Archie' trope.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

History written by the victims trickles down in the form of folklore.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.