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" Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Children
Better
Changes
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" For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays. "
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" When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil. "
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" I don't think anything connects with an audience as deeply as a long-form serialized drama, and much as I love television, I've always found a good ongoing comics series to be much more immersive. "
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" Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic. "
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New York
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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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See
Enough
" I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters. "
Brian K. Vaughan
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Time
Writing
" I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek. "
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Doing
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" I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything. "
Brian K. Vaughan
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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. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Good
Think
Step
" 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. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Luxury
Need
Only
" 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. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Political
Identity
Superhero
" I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama. "
Brian K. Vaughan
You
Politics
My Own
" 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. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Time
Book
Writing
" I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Happy
Television
Right
" By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Table
Time
Your
" That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Only
Budget
Imagination
" 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
Stories
Star
Shadow
" 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. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Feel
Audience
You
" 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. "
Brian K. Vaughan
More
I Am
Happy
" I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Internet
Write
Future
" I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Trying
Think
I Am
" I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Ego
Job
Service
" Print and digital comics will always coexist. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Always
Will
Digital
" It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention. "
Brian K. Vaughan
Work
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Feel