Quotes from Jonathan Hickman

While you slept, the world changed

and what about you? Do you wanna make out? - A little yeah. Unfortunately ,I'm working.

Your freedom it says. What is that? Some kind of illusory concept where the people in charge let you have comfortable distractions. Enough THINGS so that you don't see your chains. I respect your work too much to let you endure that kind of self-deception.

For you to die, you would have to be forgotten and no one forgets a founder of a nation.

Finally... On other earths, on other universes, I learned that evil itself was a universal constant... And that it had a face, and that it had a name.

Ignore how things are. Ignore how they seem. Make the world better.

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare.

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.

I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing 'Ultimatum' were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line.

Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.