Top 30 Jason Aaron Quotes

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.

I’m intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

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

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.

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.

Just the idea that no matter what Thor is up to he comes back to Earth is something special.

What’s nice is between ‘Wolverine and the X-Men’ and ‘Thor,’ I get to write two very different kinds of stories. Both of them really seem to scratch some itches for me.

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.

We had that first Marvel NOW! retreat where everybody came in and pitched their new books, which was probably the most exciting retreat I’ve ever been to because it was all brand new.

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.

I haven’t really used Loki at all in ‘Thor: God of Thunder’ or the previous volume of Thor.

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.

For me, especially with the villain, it’s not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.

I’ve always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the ’70s.

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.

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.

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

It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and say, ‘We really need to make a change. Let’s change this character.’ Or throw a dart at the wall and see what hits. It all begins with story.

Thor is a god who’s lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.

Are you kidding? They had me at ‘Star Wars.’ The kid inside me would’ve clawed his way out and strangled me if I’d turned this job down.

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

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

‘Original Sin’ is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.