People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.


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JON KATZ
The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors...
JON KATZ
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life...
JON KATZ
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s...
JON KATZ
There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do...
JON KATZ
I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th...
JON KATZ
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t...
JON KATZ
It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting...
JON KATZ
Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if...
JON STEWART
The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an...
JON LESTER
One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU
The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th...
JON ORINGER
That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ...
JON HURWITZ
Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER
There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t...
JON ORINGER
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po...
JON KATZ
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...
JON STEWART
When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl...
JON TENNEY
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU
I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
JON PARDI
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e...
JON MEACHAM
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the...
JON SECADA
I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e...
JON MEACHAM
Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn...
JON KRAKAUER
Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU
I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF
I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF
It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM
I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM
We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM
We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM
Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN
I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON
Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN
I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON
The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo...
JON RONSON
I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr...
JON FELTHEIMER
I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ...
JON KRAKAUER
Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
JON LOVITZ