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 My name is Daniel
Kibblesmith, and I am

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the writer of New Warriors #1.

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I got interested in
the New Warriors later.

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I remember seeing them on the
shelf when I was a kid picking

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up comics in the
'90s and just feeling

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like they were too cool for me.

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Like, I was intimidated
by, you know,

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Night Thrasher, who had a
blade coming out of his wrist.

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You know, Nova was really buff.

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And they were all edgy
characters for the '90s,

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as the cover said.

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New Warriors, I
thought, were really

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interesting characters,
because they

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occupy this really cool space.

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They're forever young.

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But they've now been
around for 30 years.

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My editors on the
previous books I've done,

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like Loki and Black
Panther Vs. Deadpool,

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asked if I'd be interested
in doing a New Warriors

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tie-in that actually poses
them as the authority

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figures in this conflict
instead of the rebels.

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And I really liked
the attention of that.

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So because the New Warriors
are the authority figures

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in this story, they have to be
mentoring new New Warriors who

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are under 21 and
subject to the laws that

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triggered the outlaw event.

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This new law is making it
illegal to be a vigilante

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under the age of 21.

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The artist on New Warriors
#1 is Luciano Vecchio.

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He designed all of
the new New Warriors

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and gave them costumes that
felt as modern as the New

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Warriors' costumes to
sort of feel classic

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and instantly familiar.

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So the first character
that we're introduced to

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is Trailblazer.

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She's a group home and foster
kid who is volunteering

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at a senior center when this
mysterious threat shows up,

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and Night Thrasher
runs to the rescue.

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And because she helps him,
she ends up in the crosshairs

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of this new outlawed law.

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And she inherited
from her grandfather

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a magic backpack
of divine origin.

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We picked the name Trailblazer
because she's somebody

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who charges into action.

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She knows that she can do some
good with this mysterious gift

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that she's been given.

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Screentime is a internet
kid taken to its sort

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of logical conclusion.

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As a youth, he was exposed
to his grandfather's

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experimental internet gas.

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And that has patched
him permanently

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into the world wide web.

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The word "screen time"
is only ever used

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in a sort of restrictive sense.

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And because we're doing a
story about teenage rebels,

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a lot of the names are about
teens fighting against labels

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that are put on them.

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So with Screentime, we
liked the idea that he

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has infinite screen time.

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Snowflake and Safespace
are the twins,

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and their names are very
similar to Screentime.

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It's this idea that
these are terms that

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get thrown around
on the internet

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that they don't
see as derogatory--

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to take those words and kind of
wear them as badges of honor.

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Safespace is kind of a big,
burly, sort stereotypical jock.

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He can create force
fields, but he

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can only trigger them if he's
protecting somebody else.

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Snowflake is non-binary
and goes by they/them.

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Snowflake has the
power to generate

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individual crystallized
snowflake-shaped shurikens.

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The connotations of
the word "snowflake"

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in our culture right now
are something fragile.

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And this is a character
who is turning

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it into something sharp.

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Snowflake is the person who
has the more offensive power.

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And Safespace is the person who
has the more defensive power.

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The idea was that they
would mirror each other

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and compliment each other.

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B Negative is the goth kid.

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When he was a baby, you've
got a rogue life-saving blood

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transfusion, we assume,
from Michael Morbius.

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And now, he has a very
similar look and very

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similar vampire powers.

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B Negative, also,
is obviously a pun.

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It's a blood type, which is
great for a vampire character.

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And it's also a proud
ownership of the idea

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of having a bad attitude.

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I want the people who
read our New Warriors

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to feel all of the
excitement that they

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felt if they read the '90s one.

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We wanted to have big, colorful
characters, personality

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clashes, romance, a diverse
cast, which is something

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that the New Warriors
titles have always

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strived to make a priority.

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Every New Warriors comic has
always felt like a reflection

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of the year that it came out.

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And I don't think we're
worried about being dated.

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I think we're way more
interested about being now.

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