Because I'm a huge Arrowette fan I feel the need to ask this of one of my favorite writers. If you had the chance to bring Cissie into the reboot and do anything with her what would you do? What would you change, or keep the same, to fit her with the unive
I am incredibly fond of Arrowette, for the simple reason that my good friend Tom Peyer created her, and we talked a lot when he came up with the character (I had nothing to do with her creation, that was totally Tom, one of my favorite writers of all time).
What I liked about her was that she seemed very human and girly, it didn’t seem like she was created to be a little mini-Wolverine. Her costume and her name made her sort of precious and adorable to me immediately, like she was trying so hard. Which I relate to a lot. In high school, I was smart, and I was moved ahead so I was younger than the other kids. And I did try to fit in with my goofy rural community, I was a cheerleader (which I HATED) and all that stuff. But it wasn’t me.
That’s what I felt about Arrowette, I liked her optimism and her desire to fit in. I liked that her look reflected a real girl personality in a way that most comics would never even try to approach.
I’d bring her back to that, I think.
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