Robot 6
SDCC ’09 | Quote of the day
Joe Quesada
“When I took over as editor-in-chief, Tom DeFalco, who was the editor-in-chief before Bob Harras, who I took over the job from, he came into my office, smacked me on the back — Tom’s a friend — and said, ‘I’m gonna give you some advice. From this point on, you have a very big target on your back. You’re going to have to have very broad shoulders. If you’re not going to do that, you’re not going to like this job.’ And at the end of the day, I’m making comic books. So I have some comic book fans that’re making fun of me. I’m not trying to resolve the economy, I’m not trying to solve things between Palestine and Israel, you know, it’s comic books and the worst thing we do is we kill off some trees and we piss off some fanboys. But as long as we do our jobs right, at the end of the day, I want to be able to look back when I either get shown the door or I walk out of it myself, I want to be able to look back and say, we gave everybody a great ride. The story’s really good. It’s all about story.”
– Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, on dealing with a vocal fanbase
- July 24, 2009 @ 11:13 AM by Kevin Melrose
5 Comments
Big Money B.G.
July 24, 2009 at 11:49 am
Amen, Joe. Amen.
And I’m not saying that as some kind of “Marvel Zombie”, either. At the end of the day, if all we’re mad about is something that happened in a comic book, it’s a pretty damn good day.
Joe
July 24, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Good to see Joe Q has a level head on his shoulders. Not that I doubted it, but stuff like this confirms it.
Excelsior
July 24, 2009 at 1:02 pm
As an off-again on Again pain in the butt. Internet curmudgeon I have to say, Joe does a great job as EIC.
Alan Coil
July 24, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I don’t understand why this qualifies as a quote of the day. It’s something that’s been said by or about every person who has taken a high profile job. I think it’s a rather mundane statement. Or it’s just another way for Q to pat himself on the back.
Shaun
July 28, 2009 at 6:38 pm
” I want to be able to look back and say, we gave everybody a great ride. The story’s really good. It’s all about story.”
And this explains One More Day how, exactly?