[Dean's World] G. Willow Wilson: Aquaman Goes To The Desert

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Posted by G. Willow Wilson:
Aquaman Goes To The Desert
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1189031844.shtml


   So the other day Dean asked me why I hadn't posted anything about my
   comic book. I told him I didn't want to seem like a shill who only
   came around to talk up her projects. Through the ether, I could see
   him wave off my excuse. "Please shill this," he said.

   Being something of a leftie, it's often hard to know what to post
   here, which, aside from being swamped with work, is why I post so
   little. When you're invited to someone's house, I think it's bad
   manners to use the invitation as an excuse to flame against what your
   host believes. My silence is polite rather than disinterested.

   I kind of felt the same way about the comic when Kevin D asked me when
   it was coming out. "This Wednesday," I told him, "Check it out." Then
   I paused. "No, wait, you'll hate it." "Why?" he wanted to know. I
   thought about the veneer of cultural and environmental politics that
   formed a gloss over what is essentially a story about two men in
   tights and some monsters. I told him it was complicated.

   He came back a couple of days later to say he'd read the comic and
   liked it. "Why on earth did you think I wouldn't?" he said. "It
   doesn't matter," I said, "I'm glad to hear you did." When I write I
   have one cardinal rule: be sensitive to people's need to have things
   both ways. Materially and practically there are right and wrong, but
   emotionally people see things in shades of grey. If politics come in,
   they come in, but if the characters are written well--if they are real
   people instead of talking heads--it doesn't matter much.

   Outsiders: Five of a Kind #4 is out now in comic book stores
   everywhere.