New Brevoort Formspring

I have a different perspective, obviously, but I don’t really think so. You’re talking about two stories out of the 75 or so we publish every month–that’s not really enough for a trend.And I also come at this from the point of view that I want to treat all of the characters in the same manner, regardless of their gender, their orientation, their nationality or their heritage. It’s a stone-cold fact that bad things are going to happen to super heroes in super hero comics–without those stakes, you wouldn’t be interested in them. So my yardstick always boils down to: would I do this to Spider-Man, or Captain America? Given that we have in both cases, I don’t see it as anything more than strange timing, where these stories are hitting these crescendos at the same moment where there’s a lot of (justified) talk going on about the portrayal of women in comics. But I don’t think any of this makes Rick Remender a misogynist, I think it makes him a super hero writer.