Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
BRIAN K. VAUGHANLife is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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I like being around teenagers. It’s good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They’re mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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