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Brian K. Vaughan

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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Fiction Stars Stories War
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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Eventually Everyone Same Strangers
The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Comics Imagination Limited
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Book Comic Ends Stories
I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Perspective Stills
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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Internet Privacy Thinking
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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Factor Mention Names Talking Two
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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Kids People Thinking
Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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Bichest Terror Yeah
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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Imaginative Real Stories
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Life Loses Misty
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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Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
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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Cry Guy Rallying Trying
I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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Case Fantasy Horror Scenario Worst
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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Better Feel Good Mom Relationship
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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Hollywood Ideas Years
I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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Adaptation Men People
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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Artists Letters Scripts
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Book Fan Nice
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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Easter Hurt School
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.
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Knowing Life Stand True
I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls.
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Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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Artists Editors Stories
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Afraid Love Without World
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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Mean Past People
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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Leader Superhero Writing
Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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More Occasional Pacifist Vegeterian

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