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"As the legacy of Jessica Jones left our hands and became this Netflix pop-culture icon (which I can’t take credit for other than just being a proud dad), it said to me that whatever we do next has to be just as dense emotionally but completely different. Pearl is an assassin with an albino skin condition. When she’s upset, patterns start to form on her skin that she’s done to herself through an art form her mother taught her. She’s a very unique character, like Jessica Jones, and I’m hoping people will just trust us and meet her to see what’s so unique about her. She’s trapped in a modern-day yakuza clan war, which is somewhat based on real stuff, and like many many people she finds herself in a world she was born into rather than one she wants to be part of. We’ll explore that journey as she figures out who she is, as opposed to who she’s been told she is. She meets her counterpart from another clan and find out what they have in common is wanting to get out of this. Sometimes you just need that one other person to make that bold, brave step for yourself." -- Brian Michael Bendis
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