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Peter Milligan Interviews Jay Spence About The Chaos: Bad Kitty One-Shot

Published Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:00:32 -0500

Peter Milligan, writer of Terminal Hero #3, talks with Jay Spence about his Bad Kitty one-shot, both on sale Oct. 8

Peter Milligan: I'm interested in the idea of imaginary friends. Tell me, did you have an imaginary friend when you were young?

Jay Spence: I didn't have much time to create an imaginary friend growing up with a brother close to my own age but I spent a lot of time creating characters on paper for my own comics just like so many of us comic fans do.

PM: Beneath the more regulation cop drama there's another story going on here. Could you tell me what is was you were trying to achieve with this story?

JS: When I decided to bring back the Bad Kitty character I was looking to explore a unique way in forcing her into vigilantism and I had some secondary real-life experience with those who are afflicted with mental illness to inspire how I would write a dedicated cop who literally can't control herself. That struggle of living as two people without complete control is just an exaggerated example of how some people really live their daily lives. That opposition with herself is what the story and the future of that character is really about.

PM: "Ass-clown". Really? Do people really say that in America?

JS: I think the REAL question is why aren't Americans saying it MORE? An "F-bomb" or "A-hole" have their place, but more "colorful" words were actually a conscious choice for the vigilante side of Bad Kitty. Katherine's "alter ego" is still very much an immature brat and I felt she would be a lot more familiar with unique and offensive insults while Katherine would rarely curse at all. With two characters sharing the same body, you try to use as many of the writing tools at your disposal to help the reader follow the controlled chaos happening in the story.

PM: Bad Kitty is an interesting character. Any plans to delve deeper into her life and reality?

JS: This book is certainly meant to be her "origin story" and the beginning of a longer journey for Katherine. Her "secret identity" will be a little less secret by the end of this book and, in future stories, Katherine will have to learn how to cope with her new life while trying to maintain the old. Most vigilantes have a mask to divide their crime fighting from their personal life but it gets a lot more complicated when both lives are out in the open.

For more on the Chaos: Bad Kitty One-Shot, click here.

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