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" In popular culture, when women compete, it's usually over a man, and it's usually very nasty. And that is just frankly not my experience. That's just some kind of popular mythology, it feels like. I find it insulting. "

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Kelly Sue DeConnick

Writing

First

Pretty

" I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function. "

" I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting. "

" I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers. "

" If you want to, if you are a crazy person, you could go from idea to the stands in about four months. It does not cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a comic the way it does to make a television show or a movie. "

" One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want. "

" If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense! "

" With 'Pretty Deadly,' I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a three-act structure in it. I don't know - someone probably can. "

" With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway. "

" You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast. "

" I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Better

Kind

" There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny. "

" In a weird way, I think I'm much better at oneshots than longform. So I try to focus on five or six-issue arcs. I have a real fondness for the one-shots because that's where I do my best storytelling. "

" Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. "

" You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Trying

Mad

" I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction. "

" I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends. "

" Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits. "

" Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent. "

" I want young women to see my name on 'Avengers Assembled' and to know that there are women who write mainstream superhero comics, and if it is something that interests them, it can be done. "

" I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?' "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Comics

Get

" I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard. "

" The first gift my husband ever gave me was a pack of index cards. I'm pretty sure the second was a 'Powers' scriptbook. This was well before either of us worked for Marvel. "

" I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended. "

" I'm not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I'll try to express instead is, 'What we're going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women's bodies. So I want them framed as though they're bursting out of the panel borders.' "

" If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack. "

" Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides. "

" I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job. "

" My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Son

" Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand. "