Is there any character that you did not enjoy writing? Not that you disliked/hated the character, but you just couldn't find a way to make them click with you?

There are a couple I didn’t get right in their brief appearances and it still bugs me to this day. Because of not-great research and an extreme time crunch, I didn’t get Cassandra Batgirl right in her first BOP appearance and that drives me batty because she has become my favorite anything ever.

Usually, what happens, for me, is this. Like any reader, pro writers have characters they love, some they are indifferent to, and some they just don’t care for for whatever reason.

This happens all the time. What you have to do is find something that you DO like about writing them. You have to find a core that resonates.

For me, the perfect example was J’onn, the Manhunter from Mars. I just never cared for him as a kid and that carried over. I thought he was too powerful, he didn’t really have anything I could grab onto.

Then he was included in my JLA:Classified run and I had to think about what I found interesting about him, and to me it was his mental powers, I found that stuff really compelling.

By the time I was done, J’onn had become one of my favorite characters. Not because of anything I did in writing him, he was already great. It’s just that in writing him, I discovered what his fans already knew, that he is unique and fascinating and different from other characters.

I have characters that I don’t really care about as a READER that I might find a blast to deal with as a WRITER. That is pretty common.

There are characters that I am still waiting to write to find that element I like: Iron Man, Circe, Two-Face…it doesn’t mean I dislike them, it just means as a reader, they’re not my favorites. i would have to really find something to grab onto when writing them.