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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI’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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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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