Brian K. Vaughan

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. ”

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table. ”

Print and digital comics will always coexist. ”

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays. ”

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. ”

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”