Onion AV Club Interviews Brian K Vaughan

I have it on good word that Vaughan is one of this generation's finer comic writers. Mike attests that Ex Machina is one of the best comics in years, and knowing how much Mike devours comics, this is high praise indeed. As always, the AV Club interviews are always insightful. Take for example this revelation where he's asked about his previous job experience.

It was my second job after film school. I saw a posting in the NYU job bulletin—they were looking for someone in an audiovisual capacity, so I went and applied for the job. I was sort of the glorified A.V. nerd, wheeling TV trays in and out of places. But every once in a while, I would shoot video stuff where the psychiatric interns would interview patients and they'd want someone to tape it. I'd get to do that. Or I'd have really strange things, like a guy would come into the hospital with, I guess, amnesia... I don't know if there's a better term, a more scientific term, for that, but they would do sodium pentothal, the Nazi truth-serum drug you always hear about in fiction. They'd inject that in order to force memory stuff. I got to tape things like that. And I mean, talk about grist for the mill. As a writer, you want to see stuff like that.

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