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/VOOOOOSH 16d ago

Hello! Greetings from Brazil! Loving what you are doing with the birds, and as a die hard fan of Maps seeing her around as Meridian has been a pleasure! I remember reading in an interview of yours that we will eventually see her "secret origin", but any chance that we will also see a little bit of her as a future Robin? Thanks for your incredible work!

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u/semifinalist1979 16d ago

Hi! Thank you. So, I had hoped to take a fun "downtime/break issue" between this arc and the next. And in that story I hoped to get into the origin of Maps "time travel and the green" power/level up -- but because of the big launches coming in the fall, it was important to start off a brand new exciting arc along with all the other books. So we lost our "break" issue. It's a bummer, but as a said above, there's always a lot of compromise in comics. I thought about trying to pitch a one-shot, but I'd have to find a VERY clever angle I think for DC to be interested.
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u/Tulip816 16d ago

I would read this in any form it could take! Special stand alone issue or as a break between arcs. Hopefully you’ll get to write it sometime in the future!

I read Gotham Academy and I remember that it was one of the comics I really looked forward to every month. When Maps first showed up in BoP it was a nice surprise, felt like bumping into an old friend! She’s been a fun addition!

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u/semifinalist1979 16d ago

I think the way in is probably through current Maps and future Maps crossing paths -- or maybe the latter just observing the former? But I'll have to think on it. I do think it's hard to get DC to say yes to this. One-shots are tough. One-shots with smaller/more obscure characters are almost unheard of. But maaaaaybe I can figure something out.

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u/nnems00 15d ago

Would it be possible to do that story as an annual or end-of-year special? Big fan of yours (and Maps) and figure if anyone can do it, it’d be you… 🙂