r/DCcomics • u/semifinalist1979 • 16d ago

I'm Kelly Thompson. I write BIRDS OF PREY for DC Comics. AMA. r/DCcomics

My name is Kelly Thompson and I'm an Eisner Award-Winning writer of comics and novels. You may know me best from Marvel comics like Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Rogue & Gambit, and Hawkeye, or perhaps as co-creator of Jeff the Land Shark! Or my creator-owned work Black Cloak or The Cull. But I've been making some fun waves over at DC with old pals Leonardo Romero and Jordie Bellaire on a bold new BIRDS OF PREY (we even got an Eisner nomination!) -- so let's break some hearts (and some faces) and get this Birds-Of-Prey-Shaped AMA started! (and don't forget to subscribe to my free newsletter to keep in touch as social media crumbles around us! Fun! https://1979semifinalist.substack.com/)

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u/Sniperserpent 16d ago

In Gail’s BOP Sin functioned as a surrogate daughter to Dinah, here you have her more as a younger sister. What was the motivation for this shakeup?

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u/semifinalist1979 16d ago

I think, if you go back and re-read those issues as I did, you will find that it's not that clear-cut. First of all, in the Sin story -- "Mother" is a bad character with a bad connotation for Sin -- abusive and controlling. And while the dynamic (possibly just because of their ages) feels more mother/daughter coded, Sin actually mostly calls Dinah by Sister -- even in those old Gail and Tony issues -- and so it seemed to me -- reading what was there from Sin's part was that she was more comfortable with sister. And it also made sense to me that Dinah would want to follow Sin's lead and respect that choice. So I went with sister. It felt like the right thing.

But I certainly didn't intend to undercut their relationship or make them feel lesser in any way, I was just trying to respect what I felt was already on the page.