I had the absolute joy of catching up with my dear friend, the brilliant Kelly Sue DeConnick. We cover it all—from swapping movie reviews and sharing updates on family life, shopping at Good Will, and so much more.

Kelly Sue is the acclaimed writer behind Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, the groundbreaking Captain Marvel run that inspired the film, and creator-owned favorites like Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly. And her latest comic, FML is out—be sure to pick it up today from your local comic book store.

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Discussed in this episode:

FML #1 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics

John Wick Franchise

Ballerina Movie

Superman Movie

James Bond

Skyfall

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Inglorious Basterds

SALT movie

Fantastic 4

James Gunn

Wes Anderson

Wonder Woman Historia

About Kelly Sue

Ms. DeConnick first came to prominence as a comics writer, where she is best known for reinventing the Carol Danvers as “Captain Marvel” at Marvel and for the Black Label standard-setting Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons at DC. Her independent comics Bitch Planet and Pretty Deadly (both from Image Comics) have ranked as New York Times best-sellers. Her books have been honored with Alfie, Eisner and British Fantasy Awards, the Bronze Medal for International Manga from Japan, as well as Hugo and Oregon Book Award nominations.

Ms. DeConnick’s screen work includes stints on Captain Marvel, a film that earned $1B for Disney worldwide, as well as 2023’s The Marvels with Marvel Studios; in addition to having consulted on features for Skydance and ARRAY, and developed television for NBCUniversal, Legendary Entertainment, Amazon Studios and HBOMax. Her most recent stage work is the mythic spectacle AWAKENING, which opened at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas in November 2022.

Mission-driven, Ms. DeConnick is a founding partner at CAAVE Media and Good Trouble Productions, where she has helped to produce non-fiction and educational comics including the “Hidden Voices” and “Recognized” series for NY Public Schools and Congressman John Lewis’ Run, in partnership with Abrams Comics. In 2015, Ms. DeConnick founded the #VisibleWomen Project, whose mission is to help women and other marginalized genders find paid work in comics and its related industries. The project continues to this day and recently expanded in partnership with Dani Hedlund of Brink Literacy.

Ms. DeConnick is proud to serve on the Video Game Advisory Board for the Gina Davis Institute, and the on Board of Directors for the Urban League chapter in Portland, OR, where she lives with her husband, writer Matt Fraction, and their two children.

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