Kelly Sue DeConnick On Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel and the Comics Internet

Kelly Sue DeConnick, who recently launched both a new iteration of Ghost at Dark Horse Comics and […]

September 6, 2017, 11:02pm

Kelly Sue DeConnick, who recently launched both a new iteration of Ghost at Dark Horse Comics and the next stage in the evolution of the movie-friendly Avengers Assemble title at Marvel, has managed to do so while writing one of the most critically-acclaimed new titles from Marvel in quite some time (Captain Marvel) and doing a seemingly-never-ending streak of interviews, Twitter exchanges with fans and convention appearances.Congratulations on Avengers Assemble: it reminds me more of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League than just about any other team book that I’ve seen. And coming from me, that’s high praise indeed.Yeah, I’ve seen that written several times and I’m embarrassed to say I’ve not read that book but now I want to get it because everybody says it’s really funny!I think that’s a really great thing because I feel like one of the things that always bothers me is the way that team books don’t seem to do a lot of character work. They all feel kind of similar.Yeah–I have no idea if I’m doing it successfully or not. It’s one of those things where I just finished my first story and I’ve started writing my second and it is a particularly large cast. I like a large cast and I like rotating focus. I like a kind of novelistic approach, but when the large cast is together as much as they are with The Avengers, I hope it works out but I couldn’t honestly tell you.

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Wonder Woman Wonder Woman Ms. Wonder Woman Avengers Avengers Avengers Well, but I think your book will have a different audience than Hickman’s has in many ways. I think it struck me because this has been such a dominant subject of conversation in comics for a while now. When the San Diego Batgirl thing happened for example, I hadn’t read any of your work yet and suddenly everyone I knew was saying, “Damn you, DC! Why didn’t you hire Kelly Sue DeConnick?” And I had to go, “Wait, who? Why does everyone love this person?”. So you’ve become a kind of offhanded feminist shorthand in the back of my brain somehow. But every so often, these things just seek you out, don’t they? There was this thing where you got referred to in a press release as Matt Fraction’s wife, and it just became a day and a half of everybody in comics advocating on your behalf. was

Captain Marvel Avengers Assemble Captain Marvel Ms. Marvel Is it a little odd to have these titles where you’re the last wave (along with Gambit and Hawkeye) of non-Marvel NOW! releases and so you didn’t get to ride that hype tidal wave? Is it hard to keep a book that’s in its first year of publication on people’s radars with all these new #1s out? which came out yesterday Was it you who decided to bring Monica Rambeau in for #7?