Chaykin Quotes & Sayings

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best. — Rick Remender

We splinter into a thousand pieces in her kitchen, becoming more together than we were apart. More than we were alone. With whispered promises and words of love, we exchange hearts. — Kennedy Ryan

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong! — Albert Camus

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth? — Jocelyn Murray

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. — Desiderius Erasmus

Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin — Mark Waid

I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning. — Albert Camus

That's one way to get rid of hallucinations...send them out for groceries. — Maury Chaykin

Ben padded over and turned the knob. Jack was unlacing his boots while Hazel brushed the leaves out of her hair, her eyes red and a little puffy. They both froze.

"It's just me," Ben said.

"We weren't - I mean, not really - " Jack started, making gestures toward the bed that Ben thought meant "I am not trying to dishonor your sister, although it is possible that I am hoping to have sex with her," at the same time Hazel began apologizing for ditching Ben.

He held up his hand to stop them from talking. "I need one of you - ideally Hazel - to explain what's actually been going on, and I need that to happen right now, starting with where you were last night. — Holly Black

Chaykin at his ballsiest and most dynamic. This is how the Shadow should be done. — Jason Aaron

Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil. — Kate Christensen

Now unto him who is able to strengthen you ... be glory. — John Piper

Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the Malthusian constraints. They had minimal impacts on living conditions. Since the Industrial Revolution, however, we have entered a strange new world in which economic theory is of little use in understanding differences in income across societies, or the future income in any specific society. Wealth and poverty are a matter of differences in local social interactions that are magnified, not dampened, by the economic system, to produce feast or famine. — Gregory Clark

I am the type to receive stress if I am not working. — Yesung

They should call fishing what it really is ... tricking and killing! — Demetri Martin

The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories. — Howard Chaykin

Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design. — Garth Ennis