Barbara Kesel interview

[wabbitseason]

SciFiChick interviews Barbara Randall Kesel about her upcoming Rogue Angel: Teller of Tall Tales mini series on IDW and being a female writer and her favorite female character: "Sephie, from Meridian, takes the top spot on the list of characters I’ve created, but my childhood favorite was Phantom Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes. I loved the Legion (around the first Shooter era) because there wasn’t just THE girl, there were enough to have personalities. There’s a scene in one where she reaches inside a robot to mess with its wiring or whatever, and I though it was just SO COOL of a power. With Sephie, she’s one of my best successes because she resonated with so many people. She’s as human as I could make her, both brave and flawed." While I'm aware of her later Crossgen work, I mostly remember her DC days. Pre-Simone, she was one of the first notable female writers I remember noticing in those days. I'll always remember her as the writer who redid Barbara Gordon (Batgirl)'s origin for "Secret Origins", just before "Killing Joke".

New icontest: mystery_stills covers challenges focusing on topics from vintage crime novels, famous historical cases, fictional detectives to the great Hollywood mysteries.