I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
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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How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
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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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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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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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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
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I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
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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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I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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