Milkfed Criminal Mastermind, originally uploaded by Kelly Sue.

Bit of this and that:

• USA Today online has a preview of the Spider-Mom story I did with ChuckBB right here.  I believe it is available for free tomorrow on the Marvel Comics app for iPhone and iPad, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited and Marvel Comics on Chrome. (If you like Chuck’s work–and if you don’t, I might still love you, but I can’t pretend to understand you–you can pick up the CBGB collection he and I are in together for a mere $7 on Amazon.)
• Supergirl #67, This is Not My Life: Part 3 of 3 comes out on Wednesday, wrapping up not only our little yarn, but also this iteration of Supergirl. Pick it up at your local comic book shop, or order it online from one of these fine retailers.
• I’m pretty sure I haven’t posted a link to this yet: Parts 1 and 2 of an interview at Weekly Comic Book Review.
• Marvel.com has been putting up teasers for the upcoming CASTLE: DEADLY STORM graphic novel. The latest is here. Pre-order the book on Amazon for $12.
• Aaaaaaaaaand I’ve run out of time. I had a couple of other things to tell you, but they’ll have to wait.

Hollywood!, originally uploaded by Kelly Sue.

Check it out, I look like I was drawn by Greg Tocchini!

Okay, so I dropped the ball on the 5 blog posts a week thing.  Progress, not perfection, right?

• First off, FEAR ITSELF #2 is out today!  Pick it up at your local comic book shop or order online from Midtown Comics!
• Big thanks to Marvel West for inviting us to the Thor premiere in Hollywood.  The movie was gorgeous and we had a lot of fun.  (Not for anything, but I have to say my husband was smoking hot in his suit.)
• Also also, I stood about 4 feet from Tadanobu Asano and I meeped.
• I’m starting to see the colors come in on Supergirl 65 and they’re pretty, pretty, pretty.
• MTV Geek News had some nice things to say about Osborn 5.

Norman Osborn by The Green Gablin

• That lovely bit of fan art comes to you (and to me!) from Gabbie, the Green Gablin, who runs the Fuck Yeah Norman Osborn tumblr.
• Interview about my upcoming Supergirl arc up here on CBR.
• Calendar Item: I’ll be doing a signing at TFAW Beaverton on Free Comic Book Day – May 7th.
• Huge thanks to the amazing Ariana Osborne, for fixing this site.  Again.

The action in “Captain America and the Secret Avengers” is triggered by Tatiana, a young girl who debuted in a short story by DeConnick and artist Jamie McKelvie, in last year’s “Enter the Heroic Age” one-shot. In this new story, Tatiana reenters the Black Widow’s life by writing her a letter. “Natasha called her mini-me in the short. She’s a teenage girl who was trained young, like Natasha. She’s also Russian, like Natasha. She’s not super powered, but she is a well-trained, highly competent assassin. She was being traded in an international arms deal when Natasha liberated her. Steve Rogers put her in a safe house from which she has run away,” DeConnick told CBR. “So in the beginning of our story, she has written to Natasha and said, ‘Thank you for believing in me and thinking of me as more than a bullet. I wanted to thank you and say that I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you were wrong.’

Who am I to argue with IGN?

Girls Night In

From Greg McElhatton at Read About Comics:

[Age of Heroes #3] opens with the strongest piece in the book, a story starring the three liaisons for the different Avengers teams. It’s a simple but fun premise from Kelly Sue DeConnick, having the Absorbing Man attack Avengers Mansion with only Maria Hill, Victoria Hand, and Sharon Carter prepared to stop him. DeConnick brings the readers through an entertaining chase, and at the same time plays off the three women’s similarities and differences.  This is probably the most interesting I’ve found Victoria Hand in particular, who finally has a reason for being slightly defensive when you see how Maria and Sharon treat her. (Victoria’s cold and stuffed-up-nose-accented dialogue are, for that matter, rather entertaining as well.) There’s even nice throwaway bits throughout the story, like the fact that with three Avengers teams there would have to be some sort of equipment-sharing deals going on to try and make everyone happy…

Full review in link.

Norman Osborn went from being maniacal super-villain the Green Goblin to the most powerful man in the Marvel Universe as the director of H.A.M.M.E.R. and Iron Patriot, leader of the Dark Avengers. Then he pushed his power a little too far during Siege, and ended up in The Raft, Marvel’s maximum-maximum security prison.

But being locked up isn’t going to stop someone like him, as readers will find out in five-issue miniseries Osborn, starting in November from writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Emma Rios, with covers by Ben Oliver. Osborn may be incarcerated with the worst of the worst, but it turns out they’re fans of his work.

Judging by the responses on Twitter, Fraction’s spotlight panel went swimmingly.  Henry went to a birthday party and ate some cake–and Tallulah hasn’t spit up on anyone yet.  So today’s been a pretty amazing day for us.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Matt Fraction