“He feels no compassion for these distorted creatures; his own bitter encounters with a family who plagued him and with (…) critics who ridiculed his work left him with no tolerance for human folly,” (Cynthia Johnson, “Ensor's ‘Masks Confronting Death’”).

Doctor Octopus was created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee!

“That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones,” (Kurt Vonnegut, The Children’s Crusade).

“The political spectrum may be linear, but it’s not a straight line. It’s shaped like a horseshoe,” (Jeff Taylor).

“Come, dear reader, come along! Follow the mute, massive being in front of you as it clumps its way forward, beckoning you deeper into the fog,” (Alex Toth, The Witching Hour).

“I went into this with the earnest intention of helping others. I wanted to learn these skills to keep someone from dying, but the system isn’t built to do that. A lot of people will say (the system) is broken and I always push back against it. It’s not broken. It’s working exactly the way it was built to work,” (Sydnee McElroy, Sawbones). 

“You could walk up to a policeman, and you could say, 'Excuse me, officer, I want to tell you something: I want to rule the world.' He can't arrest you; it's not a crime to want to rule the world,” (Stan Lee).

“It’s misleading to ask when clowns turned bad, for they were never really good,” (Benjamin Radford, Bad Clowns).

“Reassurance is absent,” (Tess Laidlaw, “Pandemic Stories”).

“Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor,” (Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman).

The Rhino was created by Stan Lee and John Romita.

“But here, miles from the launch site, I, the miraculous Magneto, alone shall make a mockery of their greatest effort,” (Stan Lee, Uncanny X-Men #1).

“No more violence or surveillance: only ‘information,’ secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion, and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play,” (Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation). 

Captain Britain was created by Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe. And, of course, reinvented by the Alans Davis and Moore.

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense,” (Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis).

“A lazy rain am I / The skies refuse to cry / Cremation takes its piece of your supply / The night is dressed like noon / A sailor spoke too soon / And China's on the dark side of the moon,” (Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Black Summer”).

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it,” (Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden).

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered,” (Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead).

“Mutually suitable teeth, claws, guts, and sense organs evolved in carnivore gene pools, while a different stable set of characteristics emerged from herbivore gene pools. Does anything analogous occur in meme pools?” (Richard Dawkins, “The Selfish Gene”).

Deadpool was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld!

“Why, Egor must have seen that we were tale-telling and went to toll our witching hour, as he always has,” (Alex Toth).