Is it sad that I’m a huge fan of my own characters? Not all of them, just a few. People I’ve created, I enjoy writing for, and I know that if someone else had invented them, I would read that too.
She started out as a basic idea. I was trying to flesh out the Silver Age in the <3-Verse, beyond the Golden-Age legacies, and created The Blackbird (mentioned in an old issue of Brat Pack, and again in Return of a Hero). Then I realised that I didn’t have any kid sidekicks anywhere in the <3-Verse. So I created this teenager that got saved by the Blackbird in the 80’s, who decided to follow in his footsteps. She created her own costume, and called herself The Magpie (because Australian magpies are black and white, and she was a white girl in a black costume, whereas the Blackbird was a black guy in a black costume). Blackbird didn’t want a sidekick, but she just wouldn’t relent, so he decided she’d be better off with his training than without it. She joined the Boomers, and basically grew up with the team. When she turned 20, she decided that being a sidekick was for kids, and changed her name to Talon. At 22, she moved to New York and formed the East Coast Boomers. 21 years later, and she’s still in the game, only taking two hiatuses, one could be considered maternity leave, and the other… Well, you know all about that now, don’t you?
Basically, she’s a badass. I like that. And a grown-up sidekick, which I really like the concept of (I’m a huge Winter Soldier fan 
). She sits up there with Mr Universe, Uncle Sam and The Shadow as my favourite <3-Verse characters that I’ve written for… So far. Stick around, because the next issue of <3C Presents will be the new Shadows Over LA (it was going to be this month’s, but I read my SOLA schedule wrong (the end of this arc needs to be at around a particular time, because it leads into some stuff with the Brats). Anyway, suffice to say, there will be a new issue of SOLA soon. Now, back to the assignment I was doing before I realised I hadn’t posted Author’s Notes yet. Hooray for procrastination!
Later Days
The Author
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