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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.

Brian K. Vaughan

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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
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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Adventure Cowboy Play
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.
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Hands Thinking Writing
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
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.
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Breathe Disgusting Next People Same
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
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
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
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
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Immigration Trying 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
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
The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Comics Imagination Limited
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
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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Fiction Stars Stories War

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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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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