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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.

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?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Mean Past People
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Cry Guy Rallying Trying
Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Good Matter Partnership
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Letters Scripts
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hands Thinking Writing
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Editors Stories
The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artist Giving Writing
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
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Cowboy Play
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
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Life Loses Misty
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 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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Drama Teenager Writing
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Afraid Love Without World
I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Books Jobs Manipulate Thinking Writing
There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Feels Late Teach

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