Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANNext 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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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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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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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’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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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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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
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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.
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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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