momsreadcomics:Dear dccomics when am I getting Tremor back?!...

momsreadcomics:

Dear dccomics when am I getting Tremor back?! Or any other asexual character that proves you do not have to be driven by sexual drives in off hours to kick butt?

DANG IT NOW I MISS TREMOR.

One thing I am not sure if I ever revealed. I did speak with several women about both the sexuality and ethnicity of the character. Like a lot of people, I didn’t know much about the RANGE of what identifying as Ace meant. When you are on the outside looking in, it’s easy to have a bunch of assumptions and of course, the reality is a thousand times more complex.

I also had no idea how MANY readers identified as Ace, and it helped me understand the various conditions, and how romance and sexuality and attraction and all those things are dials with different level numbers. As always, the readers were tremendously generous and I owe them so much.  The idea of asexual characters hasn’t really seemed to permeate the mainstream, and when it does, it is often with a lot of ugly cliches. So I was always happy that Tremor was content and happy and well-adjusted, and had the most dedicated conscience in the Movement. 

Anyway, one of the interesting things was, I specifically wanted Tremor to be Bengali, and after speaking with several women about what that would mean, I got an offer from a MARVEL editor (this was when I was a DC exclusive), that his wife was Bengali and she would be delighted to help me make Tremor’s backstory authentic.

I just always thought that was a lovely gesture. Some of the things in Tremor’s story came right from her real life, and she was married to someone working at the ‘competition,’ but it was important to her to have (hopefully!) an accurate and decent portrayal of a Bengali woman. I thought it was a nice example of showing that there are more important things than who works at what company. If you like Tremor, she was a big part of that.

There are some who take the competition thing really seriously, but most of us are always willing to help out someone if we can, and that’s always struck me as a very cool thing about comics. 

I hope Tremor comes back soon!