Kelly Sue DeConnick is one of the top writers at Marvel Comics, helming both Captain Marvel and Avengers Assemble. As she sets those titles up for a crossover, she's also working on Ghost for Dark Horse and a creator-owned project called Pretty Deadly.
She took some time at Heroes Con to give us an update on all of her projects.
IGN Comics: Every hero has their weakness, their kryptonite or whatever. With Captain Marvel, she has one of the more human weaknesses, something that could really happen to anybody, a lesion on her brain. Could you speak to how you came up with that idea and why this particular ailment was best for her story?
Kelly Sue DeConnick: I think that Carol is real. She's not allergic to yellow or wood anything. I think she is her own worst enemy in a lot of ways. It was a thing that I noticed when I researched the book, which was that Carol always fights Carol. Like, literally and often. In the history of the book, several times she has fought herself. Someone dressed as her, someone with her name, someone who is actually her from another dimension. This is a thing that happens repeatedly, and I was super annoyed by it when I was researching the book. And I was like, I'm not going to do that. And I've done it, what, three times now?
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