Impossible Jones: All I Want for Christmas...

[laughing_tree]

When I was taken off writing the first Harley Quinn book [in 2002], I wanted to do a storyline that would introduce a viable romantic interest for Harley who wasn’t the Joker. That character: Plastic Man. Didn’t get approved. I think the seeds for Impossible Jones were planted right there. -- Karl Kesel

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King of Spies #1

[history79]

"I often feel funny watching blockbuster movies. On the one hand, in 2008, I was rooting for Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne to win, but on the other the financial crash was going on that year and these are the guys who would fire 30% of their work force to balance the books. It’s the same with British secret agent movies. On the one hand I love seeing the bad guy blown away and a Union Jack rolling down the screen.

On the other, I’m aware that the country is a mess, there’s division like we’ve never seen, all these kids are living in poverty and these super-spies are defending kings and queens in their palaces. I liked the idea of someone like that, who had every advantage in life, looking out the back of a taxi at London boarded up and homeless people in shop doorways. Is this what he risked his life for? A corrupt status quo? That was an interesting starting point for me."

- Mark Millar


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