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I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Brian K. Vaughan

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
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
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Book Fan Nice
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
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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Artists Letters Scripts
I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
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Before Children Forty Now Think
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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Character Issues Winning
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 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
It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

History Interesting Itself Repeats Trying
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
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Life Loses Misty
Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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More Occasional Pacifist Vegeterian
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Case Fantasy Horror Scenario Worst
We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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Adventure Boys Female Two

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