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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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

" 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. "

" One of the things I enjoyed when working in manga was when I couldn't tell where anything was going because there weren't narrative tropes and structures I was used to. After doing it for seven years, I got to the point where I did see structures. I did start to learn, but at first I didn't know where it was going. It was very exciting for me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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" 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. "

" I am a nerd among nerds. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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" Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid. "

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

" 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

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" 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. "

" I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me. "

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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" 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 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. "

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

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

Kelly Sue DeConnick

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" If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space. "

" Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story. "

" 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! "

" Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes. "

" Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing. "

" 'Female Convict 701: Scorpion' is based on a manga as is 'Lady Snowblood.' I saw 'Lady Snowblood' in the theater between writing issue three and issue four of the first arc of 'Pretty Deadly,' and I was really surprised how much I was influenced by it. "

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

" Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things. "