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" When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream! "
Cullen Bunn
Makeup
Work
Life
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" I always liked 'Green Lantern,' but I wasn't necessarily a diehard fan. I read stories here and there when I came across them. "
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Fan
Always
Green
" I kind of hate over-explanation in comics. "
Cullen Bunn
Hate
Kind
Comics
" I have always loved westerns... supernatural westerns in particular. One of my first professional short story sales was a horror/western story. It wasn't so great, though, so I'm glad the magazine folded before it saw print. "
Cullen Bunn
Professional
Short
Loved
" I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business. "
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Been
Work
Some
" In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven. "
Cullen Bunn
React
People
Escape
" As a writer, I feel like your favorite character shouldn't be safe. "
Cullen Bunn
Safe
Character
Feel
" 'Magneto' is a tragic figure. He is a man who has stared right into the face of ultimate evil... and he was broken into pieces by what he saw. When he healed, he healed stronger, but he also never fully recovered. "
Cullen Bunn
Broken
Face
Man
" The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next. "
Cullen Bunn
Great
Truck
Book
" I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off. "
Cullen Bunn
Special
Always
Back
" Deadpool's' probably pretty proud of his comic book hero physique. "
Cullen Bunn
Proud
Book
Comic Book
" I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics. "
Cullen Bunn
Gift
Adventure
Ghosts
" There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series. "
Cullen Bunn
Book
Comic Book
Favorite
" Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer. "
Cullen Bunn
Dead
Me
Influences
" You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness. "
Cullen Bunn
Want
Kind
Purpose
" There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors... the list goes on and on. "
Cullen Bunn
Love
List
Ghost
" I've been extremely lucky in my career, in terms of artists and colorists I've been able to work with, and I think 'Helheim' is a perfect example of that look playing out perfectly. "
Cullen Bunn
Career
Out
Perfect
" It's pretty simple, really: I love the X-Men. They were my favorite heroes when I was a kid. My dad and I collected X-Men comics together, and I know it would have made him proud to see me writing 'Uncanny X-Men.' "
Cullen Bunn
Love
Proud
Simple
" I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt. "
Cullen Bunn
Book
Myself
Future
" If you go out in the country, spend a lot of time on decaying farms, and you see a lot of crumbling tobacco farms, and wandering the woods, there's something beneath the surface; there's something older... more sinister. "
Cullen Bunn
Woods
You
Country
" My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree. "
Cullen Bunn
Own
Understand
Motivation
" Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread. "
Cullen Bunn
Story
Mood
Horror
" I figure if someone calls something a 'Draugr,' people can figure out that it's a monster or some sort of mythic creature, and if they want to know more, there's plenty of information out there about those mythic creatures. "
Cullen Bunn
Know
Someone
Information
" I loved 'Lobo' in the '90s, but I think that character is hard to connect with, especially for new readers. "
Cullen Bunn
New
Think
Hard
" I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average 'good' person can understand and get behind. "
Cullen Bunn
Person
Good Person
Bad
" When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print. "
Cullen Bunn
Waiting
Patience
People
" I think Vikings have always been popular, haven't they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior. "
Cullen Bunn
Reading
Think
Warrior
" Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book. "
Cullen Bunn
Love
Team
Writing
" I've been exposed to a ton of 'Magneto' stories over the years, and they all influence me. "
Cullen Bunn
Over
Years
Influence
" Writing 'Magneto' as part of a team took a little getting used to. "
Cullen Bunn
Little
Writing
Team
" If I had my way, I'd love to see 'Wolverine' in a cosmic adventure all by his lonesome. "
Cullen Bunn
Cosmic
Love
Way