dc – Question of Smoke

towatchtheworldburn:

The Huffington Post: What challenges were there in writing and drawing a queer story line taking place in the ‘40s?

Marguerite Bennet: None, really! Batwoman is technically operating outside the law, and Maggie Sawyer is our Jim Gordon in the “Bombshells” universe, so their reasons for being guarded in public had nothing to do with their personal relationships. I wanted to focus on scenes of them together and happy. The last thing I wanted to do was open with them having to suffer prejudice and violence; we’d much rather watch our heroines be heroines than first prove that they have the right to be here at all. As “Bombshells” is an alternate history of WWII, we might have the chance to further explore the concept later, actually.

HP: What did you want to make sure you got just right?

Bennet: For my own part, I wanted queer characters, women of color, women of different faiths, women of different nations, women of all ages and from all places in life. In so many teams, there are only one or two women and their experiences must stand for the experiences of all women. In the world of “Bombshells,” we have enough female characters that no one has to be the role model, the romantic interest, the badass — an archetype. No woman has to be everything. No woman, indeed, has to be anything.

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