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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

Brian K. Vaughan

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Cry Guy Rallying Trying
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hollywood Ideas Years
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Knowing Life Stand True
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Immigration Trying Writing
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Factor Mention Names Talking Two
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Budgets Comic Imagination
Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Bichest Terror Yeah
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Better Feel Good Mom Relationship
To try and imagine that I’m another person is always going to be hard – whether I’m writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who’s trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Ethnicity Gay Writing
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Fiction Stars Stories War
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Character Issues Winning
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Books Jobs Manipulate Thinking Writing
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Internet Privacy Thinking
After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Leader Superhero Writing
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Afraid Love Without World

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

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