![]() ![]() In an interview we had a while back with Kelly Sue DeConnick, a friend and listener asked the question “How do you write a female character properly?” and Kelly Sue responded with “Just write her like she’s a human being.” Kurtis nails this and writes these characters like he’s known exactly what the female readership has been looking for all this time. It isn’t a book about kick-ass female mercenaries but instead it’s a book about kick-ass mercenaries that happen to be female. The characters have a distinct personalities and a unique looks to them, each coming in different sizes and shapes. Rat Queens is a well-written and beautifully drawn book about a badass elf, goblin, dwarf and a druid that make up a team of drunk, dysfunctional mercenaries. ![]() Rat Queens could easily have come across as a series that’s trying to capitalize on a market largely ignored by the big two, but it’s so incredibly far from that. A lot of the titles are fantastic but it’ll just be a great day when a book with a female lead isn’t front-page news. While companies are starting to deliver us great series’ with excellent creative teams, to me it feels a bit like they’re doing to appease the masses and not just for the sake of having more variety in the world. For the last little while, the comic book industry has been festooned with people crying out for more female lead books. ![]()
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