How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANVictor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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.
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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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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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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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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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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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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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