dangersuntoldhardshipsunnumbered:

foleypdx:

Don’t want to jinx it… but I feel like I’m in THE ZONE.

Here’s an Alex Danvers Catco cover… more print prep for @clexacon

(nice work, @foleypdx)

No Fear.  Just Love.

The office of Alex Danvers is brightly lit, spacious and a little chaotic.  It’s still half in boxes because, she explains, she is still moving in from the smaller temporary space she’d been occupying until this one was ready.  She gestures around, chuckling.  “I’m not sure how I crammed all this stuff into an office half the size of this.”

She’s quick on her feet, offering me coffee (the coffee machine, she tells me, was the first thing that got plugged in when she moved in) and texting while she gives me the rundown on her big plans since she accepted Lena Luthor’s offer to head up biosciences R&D at L-Corp:  gene therapy, exo-immunity, genetic encryption, and, on the side, to amuse herself, a better nutrition bar to help combat hunger in third world countries.

For those who have been living under a rock and don’t know Alex Danvers’s name, she shot to public notoriety after she helped then-President Olivia Marsdin with a daring public-vaccine program involving a time-decaying DNA injection to combat an alien pathogen that had been unleashed as a bioweapon.  This was some five years ago, now, and her reticence at speaking to the public has become a thing of the past.

“Yeah,” she says, her dark eyes focusing on me for a moment and looking suddenly earnest, “medals, speeches, interviews … that stuff was so not my thing.  The attention was really weird.”

I smile.  This, from a woman whose TED talk on epigenetics has been viewed on youtube over seven million times.

Is it because of her days as a secret agent, I joke, that she eschewed the spotlight for so long?

Danvers laughs.  It’s a longstanding rumor that simply won’t die, she says.  No, she is not and never was a secret agent.  She just did a little medical research for the CIA.  “I don’t even know how that rumor started.”

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