I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANVictor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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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