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Black Bolt List: Normal Jean by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Published Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:00:53 -0500

Earlier in the year, I ran a Bleeding Cool Magazine article called "Black Bolt List", looking at projects that were announce, created even, but never made it to the page, for one reason or another. A couple wandered in a little later but finding reason to talk about Piecemeal and Spider-Man: Widow's Web made me revisit them.

Such as Kelly Sue DeConnick talking about an older project…

"I've got a country noir/hillbilly horror story at Oni called NORMAL JEAN about sixteen year old hillbilly girl who thinks she's Marilyn Monroe reincarnated and what happens when the grifter who fathered her comes back to town to play his last con on the locals.

"Hell hath no fury again, I guess. Only with cabins and sticks.

"And sixteen year old Marilyn lookalikes.

"And stabbing."

Kelly Sue told me,

"It was green lit — I'm honestly not sure why it never happened. We never found the right artist, I guess? I think we were close to agreeing on Noel Tuazon, but… I don't know. I just sort of died. No hard feelings or anything — I think it was probably as much a function of my not knowing I needed to be proactive about making it happen as anything.

"Funniest part in retrospect is that the pitch was, like, 35 pages long."

One day, Kelly, one day Norma will return… we will hold a candle for her.