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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we go...

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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what al...

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We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for...

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A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't mat...

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Civil War: The Amazing Spider-Man

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as a...

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Before Watchmen: Nite Owl/Dr. Manhattan

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glor...

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Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything...

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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't ...

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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not ...

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Thor

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull...

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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe i...

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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...

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There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really wa...

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The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. N...

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I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more...

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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing i...

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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

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J. Michael Straczynski

Writer

Born: 1954-07-17

Died: N/A

Joseph Michael Straczynski (born 17 July 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas.More