blackalice:This is why Jeanette just is…....

blackalice:

This is why Jeanette just is…. :-)

Sigh.

One of the wonderful things about getting to write Secret Six was to actually get to talk about evil, REAL fucking evil, not Dr. Doom evil, in a way that superheroes never seem to confront.  How we imprison people, and WHOM we imprison, says volumes about who we are as a society. Unfortunately, what it says about most societies is pretty bad.

All the things that Jeannette speaks of in Depths, they are real things that happened to real people. The dichotomy with her is, she is clearly paid for dominatrix duties that she relishes, but at the same time, she hates, HATES, to see someone's freedom taken away. When she frees Artemis, she hates doing it, but more than that, she can't allow Artemis to be shackled and abused, her conscience and memory won't allow that. 

The thing about the Secret Six that makes them bearable, I always felt, was not their humor or their friendship, I think it's that each of them carries the deep scars of tragedy. You just can't get darker backstories than Catman, Jeannette, Ragdoll, Bane, Scandal, and Deadshot.  The fact that they survived all those horrible pasts and have found a way to live and even thrive, I think it's a powerful and positive message that has always underlined the book and made it more than just the usual bad-guys-team-up thing.

There's been a real surge of fan buzz about Jeannette lately, I hope that means we'll get to bring her back soon. That fierce look on her face right there makes me want her back RIGHT NOW.