Gail, Jeannette is one of my all-time favourite characters! I gotta ask, what was your inspiration for her? And if you could have her back in the New 52, where would you place her (Solo series, team book, etc.) if you were the one to decide?

Hmm. Birds of Prey, maybe? I don’t see her in the Suicide Squad for some reason.

What happened was, Nicola was coming aboard Secret Six the ongoing series, and I wanted to add  a cool new female character. I think I had three ideas, all of which I liked.

One was a Thanagarian corrupt cop…this idea got mutated into Katharsis, later (without the Thanagarian part).

The other escapes my memory at the moment.

The one Nicola loved was Jeannette. So that’s who we went with.

There were so many vampires out there, I wanted a character that everyone THOUGHT was a vampire, but would turn out to be something else entirely.  I also wanted a character that felt more European…most all the DCU characters either come from somewhere fictional or from the USA.

That’s about all I remember… I may have been inspired to make her a banshee by a ghost tour I took last time I was in Dublin but I am not positive about that.