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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.’

Brian K. Vaughan

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
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Afraid Love Without World
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Budgets Comic Imagination
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
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
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
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 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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Book Girl Paper
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.
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Adaptation Men People
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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Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
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
It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
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History Interesting Itself Repeats Trying
Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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Good Matter Partnership
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
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Knowing Life Stand True
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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Drama Teenager Writing
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Book Comic Ends Stories

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