Quotes from Jason Aaron

Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.

You gotta trust your artist. I love writing pages without dialogue, which seems weird, I guess. But few things are as powerful in comics as a really strong silent page.

From the get-go, 'Original Sin' was always as much a Nick Fury story as anything else.

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

'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'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

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.

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 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 love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they've been very good at mining the comics.

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

I just remember how cool and exciting and crazy it seemed when Marvel was giving this new 'Ultimate Spider-Man' title to this crime writer Brian Michael Bendis who had never really done any superhero stuff before.

Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

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

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

I wrote and drew my own books on notebook paper, and I'd staple 'em together. I had my own fictional company, and we had our own thinly veiled offshoots of whatever was popular at Marvel and DC at the time.

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

I didn't get into comics as a stepping stone.

The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.

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.

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

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.

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.