Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughanis an American comic book and television writer, best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, and Saga...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
smart thinking trying
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
fun long trying
Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.
writing trying why-not
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
rallying-cry guy trying
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.
definitely good politics race talk whether
I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
love
I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek.
attempting sort time
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
audience comics connects deeply found good love ongoing series
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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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.
becoming last romance seen women
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.
began comics guess mainstream stuff
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.
comic exist open series totally wants
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.
life readers
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.
genre handled knew power sides spectrum superhero themes
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.