Marvel’s SIF: Swordplay & Bloodshed, That’s More Her Speed
Two Sif-related items this morning!
1) Ryan tweeted a little teaser image here; and
2) The first Sif-related interview is up. It’s at Newsarama, right here.
Here’s an excerpt:
Nrama: I have but one simple question for you as a writer: What makes you dig Sif?
DeConnick: I think it’s the same thing explains my fondness for women-of-vengeance movies and the Japanese pinky violence films of the 1970s. I think… I mean, I’m a five foot tall short-tempered woman of Sicilian heritage and when someone or something pisses me off—which happens, I’m somewhat ashamed to admit, on a regular basis—it’s neither socially nor ethically acceptable for me to pick up a baseball bat and crack heads. But boy… I entertain the notion about once a day. So there’s that fantasy element to Sif.
And then—stepping away from my own character defects for a moment—there’s the age-old mythic appeal of the Hero.
Nrama: And of course: What is it that compels us mortals to partake in the epic tales of Asgard?
DeConnick: What makes us read fiction at all? What’s the appeal of parable or fable? It’s the same thing that made me a nut for Greek mythology when I was a kid—these over-sized tales push our power-fantasy buttons, sure, but they also help us order our understanding of each other and our world.
I mean, we’re getting into Joseph Campbell stuff here, but this is marrow, you know? I think imagination and myth are as hard-wired into us as our appetites for sustenance and love.