Gail, your Gen13 run was GOLD. It brought them back to a really fun place, and more personally, it got one of my best friends into comics. He was always kind of interested, and I got him to pick up your run when it started, and that started a chain reactio

That’s wonderful to hear, thank you!

Gen13 is a weird one for me. I had no real attachment to the characters, and they had fallen a bit into disrepair. They’d been retconned and revamped and weird stuff, and it didn’t seem to take.

When Wildstorm was going through a big relaunch, they asked me to write Gen13, and the thing was, I had a pitch I really wanted to do, Welcome to Tranquility. So there was some quid pro quo there.

But the weird thing is, I fell in love hard with the Gen13 cast. And we did good, really good. We were the number one selling ongoing WSU title, a fact which didn’t get a lot of mention because most of the higher profile relaunches were either not coming out due to lateness or not faring as well with readers.

So it was a hit, and I think it’s probably the most underrated run I have ever worked on. The art was gorgeous, and I am extremely proud of the writing. It’s got a lot of experimental storytelling for a superhero team book.

I think WS thought it was going to be more of a romp, and there’s definitely funny stuff in it, but it’s also got a pretty grim vision of how society treats marginalized teenagers. It has some really dark moments.

But I love the cast. I often regret leaving the book. I think we had something quite special.