Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.
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It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
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I think it was born out of that grade school fantasy that a lot of nerds like me had, which was 'I could probably get the cute red-headed girl that sits across from me, if only every other boy in the entire school dies.'
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There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.
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I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things.
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I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
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I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
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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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In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
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There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you - and that your publisher will still exist.
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The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything.
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I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
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I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.
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I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.
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I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
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I just make crap up more than anything else.
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When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
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I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
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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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I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.
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Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
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I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.