The Unstoppable Wasp

Yeah, I think that's something I've always made a point of, even when there is a contrast, a parent that isn't good and helpful and caring or prioritizes their own interests and their own feelings.

I did it a bit in Unstoppable Wasp as well, where we have one parent who's very supportive of their kid and another parent who isn't.

But in this case, I really wanted to like make sure we had this like example of parents that are are very supportive and are and know how to be supportive and know how to just be there.

And it's not like it's not an extremely difficult thing to do.

Do you use sensitivity readers for any aspects of this?

Oh yeah, absolutely.

In fact, part of my motivation in creating Nisha as a character with cerebral palsy was when I wrote Unstoppable Wasp, I had a supporting character in that who At CP, I wanted to have somebody who had a visible representation of a disability, Taina Miranda, and that has arm crutches that she uses to get around.

And when I was writing that book, I made friends with a reader who was also a writer themselves, who has CP, who was excited about giving.

'Cause like when I knew I was gonna write a romance story, um, I had been ...

When I had worked on Unstoppable Wasp over at Marvel, I had had a character in that that had cerebral palsy, and, um, had, uh, had a, a fan who was also a writer, uh, who had cerebral palsy who, uh, gave me a lot of great input on that character, um, and was really excited to, to help and talk about it.

And then when I had this opportunity to do this story, I was like, "Okay, I know I wanna have a, uh, a romance." I think comics so rarely shows characters with disabilities a lot, especially, um, certain types of comics, especially romance, but comics is so good at being able to demonstrate, like, what this looks like in a way that, you know, it's not like books where somebody can tell you something about what a character looks like and you have to picture it and hold it in your mind, and remember, you know, whenever stuff is happening, "Oh, yes, they are also dealing with this." But in comics it's, it's always, you know, when it's a-

It's, it's also not like movies where it's often, like, over-exaggerated and becomes all of it.

And for the record, I went back, I'm looking at the transcript, that is not the story you told last time.

Oh, right.

The last time it was re- realizing that on the email thread with Mark Waid and Tom Brevoort about, about your Unstoppable Wasp book- That the Adam was Adam Kubert.

Yes.