Marvel.com: If I can ask, how did you and Jamie...

10th October 2012

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Marvel.com: If I can ask, how did you and Jamie find yourselves on this book?

Kieron Gillen: [Marvel Editor-in-Chief] Axel [Alonso] bullied me into it.

I’m not even joking. When it was floated, I wasn’t sure. YOUNG AVENGERS was a book with such a unique and singular vision from [co-creators Allan] Heinberg and [Jim] Cheung, and at least a big part of the vision was simply not what I do. It’s a book which was kind of a love song to Marvel Comics’ continuity, playing games and celebrating equally. I dug the book, but I knew that’s just not what I would do. I would never base a story around that. It’s just not how I think.

Then Axel basically beat my head against the floor a few times and said “Seriously, give it a proper think.”

So I did, and I managed to find a way to make it work for me. It was such a personal book for Heinberg; I realized the heart of it had to be trying to make it just as personal for me. And since we’re different writers, we have to be personal in our own way. I realized a big part of that had to be gathering together the creators I most trusted, and try and build something entirely bespoke. Which lead to Jamie McKelvie and everyone else, and the pop-song-as-super hero-comic you see before you.

— A second Young Avengers interview is up over at Marvel.com. I wrote these answers vvvvverrrry quickly, so excuse any sense of hysteria.

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