There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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.
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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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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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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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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.
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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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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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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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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