Issue 4 Page 13
If you hadn’t noticed, I love writing Chloe and Johnny on the phone. It’s for a couple of reasons:
1. It communicates how awkward it is that Chloe’s in her superhero costume and hiding it.
2. It develops their relationship, but it also shows them visually as separated, which adds a nice tension.
3. It gets quick paced dialogue as other parts of the story unfold.
So that’s why, if you were wondering. If not, you know anyway! See you next week!
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That awkward moment where it starts to dawn on you that your boyfriend is on the other side of the law
What the hell kind of logic made Detective Liu decide to ask a superhero for a random stakeout? Did all the cops in the city take a night off at the same time or something? Or does she just like the idea of making her do the police’s job for them without getting paid?
Hey Bobby, thanks for being there!
Detective Liu has some complicated motivations. I actually have a really intensive back story outlined for her which explains why she’d be hesitant to allow her fellow officers to jump into a potentially violent situation at this point in her life/career, but it didn’t seem particularly relevant to Chloe and Johnny’s story to waste page space on. A detective giving leads to superheroes is a pretty common trope in the genre, so I thought it best to leave it at that.
Though for an explanation: in her mind, it’s better to have the element of surprise of a superhero showing up to take some of the risk out of the situation first.
My original thought was to do a spin off comic starring Liu that was pure police drama, but art is pretty expensive so I decided it best to stay focused on the Flying Sparks storyline. I’ve also toyed with doing a weekly installment prose story with her. Depends on if the readers would be interested in that sort of thing, I suppose.
Hope that helps!
I guess. It just seems like a really… mundane situation. In my mind, you call in superhero help for special situations where their help is going to be particularly useful.
You REALLY need a flying person? Call Meta-Girl! Supervillain attack? …Well, actually you’d better call Meta-Man, but you know what I mean. Generic operation against a bunch of thugs? Well, the cops have the advantage of being, yanno, trained for it, instead of being college-age physics students. Also, it’s their job. Which they’re paid for. As opposed to being civilians thrown into a dangerous situation.
I guess part of it is that she’s not a very powerful superheroine. I mean, she flies and she has a taser. In this situation, I’d pick SWAT training and a bullet-resistant vest over that.
Depends on your perspective. With how much mainstream comics have sorta upped the endgame ante over and over in recent years, yes, a situation of guys with guns delivering goods to potentially more guys with guns ends up looking mundane a lot of the time. But there’ still risks for cop lives there, bigtime. And she doesn’t necessarily know how many people are showing up, what their weaponry’s like.
I suppose it all comes down to how much faith a person who’s met Meta-Girl (and whose life was saved by Meta-Girl in issue 2) would have in her.