“He was the cleanest-cut comic-book schoolboy hero imaginable.”
“A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)”
“Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.”
“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”
“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”
“We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films.”