Jonathan Hickman Quotes & Sayings

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go. — Jonathan Hickman

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. — Jonathan Hickman

As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit. — Jonathan Hickman

'100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff. — Jonathan Hickman

You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest. — Jonathan Hickman

-Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions?
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Hmmm. Okay. — Jonathan Hickman

No. It's not a game. This is the world. It is not the one we were supposed to have, but it's the one we made.

We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together.

But I'm damned already... so at least I'm going to try. — Jonathan Hickman

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. — Jonathan Hickman

Do you know what the people will say about this day thousands of years from now? What they will say about these creatures and their valiant last stand? Nothing... because we will not tell them. Oblivion is all there is for-- — Jonathan Hickman

Ever boy deserves a father. — Jonathan Hickman

I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums. — Jonathan Hickman

The Things That Divide Us Are Stronger Than The Things That Unite Us. — Jonathan Hickman

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

Fuck your science, Doctor...
I've got a machine gun. — Jonathan Hickman

Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic. — Jonathan Hickman

Listen, I'm going to tell you this because no one else will, Franklin. Spider-Man sucks. — Jonathan Hickman

We planned for betrayal. They planned for deceit. No one ever thought to plan for harmony. — Jonathan Hickman

Love sends a man half way around the world ...
Just for the hope of catching it. — Jonathan Hickman

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. — Jonathan Hickman

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

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

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party. — Jonathan Hickman

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. — Jonathan Hickman

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. — Jonathan Hickman

Spiderman: You're going to have to do something about those children, Stark.
Tony: What children?
Spiderman: The annoying, ill-mannered ones.
Tony: I need more.
Spiderman: Bomb Boy and Solar Flare.
Tony: I think you mean Cannonball and Sunspot. What did they do this time?
Spiderman: We were in the kitchen and they decided to - rather rudely - confront me about eating the leftovers in the refrigerator.
Tony: Was it your food?
Spiderman: No.
Tony: Was it theirs?
Spiderman: Possibly. It was an honest mistake. My point - I think THE point - is I won't be spoken to that way by infants.
Tony: Then don't eat their food. — Jonathan Hickman

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. — Jonathan Hickman

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. — Jonathan Hickman

The catalyst of action is intent.
It's the other end of the bullet. — Jonathan Hickman

What is the true cost of a man's mistakes? — Jonathan Hickman

There's a thing, Father, where men who have thought they were giants their entire lives actually see one for the first time.

It sparks a reaction.

It shows them their true worth.

It shows them their place. — Jonathan Hickman

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. — Jonathan Hickman

Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be...

It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground. — Jonathan Hickman