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Q&A with author Jon Morris

What inspired you to write a series on regrettable comic book characters?

We’re in the middle of a superhero boom in movies, but most of the heroes who are getting a shot at silver screen success are the flagships characters—X-Men, Batman, Hulk, Thor, Superman—the characters who always get all the attention. I thought it would be fun to shine a light on the lesser-known characters.

What type of research did you do?

Over the course of my lifetime, I’ve read literally tens of thousands of comic books. For the series, I reinvested in a small library of several hundred more books, dove into public domain archives, and started up conversations with comics scholars on three continents!

Who is your favorite regrettable superhero?

I have a great deal of affection for The Red Bee, a two-fisted assistant district attorney whose sole superpower was that he had trained a single bee, named Michael, to help him fight crime. I like to say of him, 'Few have tried so hard to do so much with so little'.

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