I guess it’s been 10 years?

On Thursday the last issue of Monstress’s third arc went off the printer.  Sana Takeda poured her heart into the art — it’s a beautiful issue.  All of her work is beautiful, and to me it keeps becoming more so — deeper and lovelier, and magical.

I always have mixed feelings about my own writing, but there were a couple emotional beats that I was finally able to get on the page — beats that I’ve been waiting to write, beats that I kept trying to insert into the book before the characters were...