Kelly Sue DeConnick brought her insight, humor, passion and inspiration to GeekGirlCon ’13 for the first time this past weekend in Seattle.
The third annual celebration of women in geek culture welcomed the writer who charted a new course for fan favorite Avenger Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel and Avengers Assemble.
DeConnick soars into her own new adventure with a creator-owned book with artist Emma Rios. DeConnick revealed at the panel how she and Rios started the idea of working together back in 2009 with a love of Westerns. Both creators have shared their artistic processes via social media so much that there’s already fan art and high expectations for Pretty Deadly #1.
The main character is Death’s daughter riding the West as a reaper of vengeance. When a creator takes on a brand new concept based on several influences there’s comes a time when you to find a way to tell potential readers what it is and why they should try it.
In an interview I asked DeConnick how she describes the book and revealed how her other half helped when it was time to write the solicit:
“I don’t know how to describe it. I don’t know. It’s weird. It’s a weird book. I think I was calling it a brutal mythological western and he (Matt Fraction) said “can you say it’s this and this?” It has the mythology of Sandman and the brutality of Preacher and I was like “yoink”(pulling it air) for the solitics.
Because you know what you what you should really do is set up expectations by comparing your own work to two of the greatest in the history of modern comics. That’s not going to come and bit you in the butt. That is totally a great idea (smiles)”
Pretty Deadly #1 from Image Comics arrives this Wednesday.
DeConnick will be joined by artist David Lopez on an All-New Captain Marvel #1 and is working with writer Warren Ellis on an arc of Avengers Assemble in 2014.
By Editor