![]() So basically, it seems like, at the time, the thinking with the Marvel team was that things needed to be somewhat two-dimensional. Not in a summer blockbuster or Marvel picture." But it's the kind of thing where there's only X amount of time the movies, so you have moments of that, but you can't really have a subplot that explores that kind of thing. So I think that's what I was trying to do: humanize him a little bit more. But I was just trying to root it a little bit more in the mental anguish that he went through to justify it, and to take a little bit of that journey. ![]() I don't mean that I was, like, f-ing Gandhi. I think I was trying to write to the emotionality of this dude and motivate the absurd violence with some kind of meaning. So I was trying to expand the Marvel Universe in a direction it should not have been expanded in. So they're two-dimensional for a reason: that's the purpose they serve. They're very derivative, they're stereotyped, but this is the guy that does this, and this is the guy who does this. And that happened in Paris, because their graphic novel industry is decades beyond ours! But I didn't realize that you can't take liberties with some of the characters and some of the traits, because they are what they are. I didn't really get into that whole world until about 15 years ago, which is when I started getting into graphic novels. ![]() "I'm a Marvel fan, but I was not a comic book kid. ![]()
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