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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.

Brian K. Vaughan

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
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Book Fan Nice
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
Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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Bichest Terror Yeah
There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Feels Late Teach
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
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Afraid Love Without World
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
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
I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Perspective Stills
Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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Adaptation Comics Destination Great Stepping
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
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.
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Ethnicity Gay Writing
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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Bodies Everything Teenagers Weird
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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Body Heart Men

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