‘Runaways’ Writer, Rainbow Rowell, Kept it 100 at New York Comic Con 2017

Rainbow Rowell is one of the realest authors I’ve ever had the pleasure to interact with. She’s still in her infantile stage of celebrity and literary fame, which adds to her greatness for multiple reasons. Rainbow can be as candid and down to Earth as she’s feelin’ but she can also as honest and vulnerable and as her mold depicts. She refuses to adhere to societal norms and Stans for unconventional characters in her stories. These are just a few of the reason’s I’m hyped that she is the new author of the revived Runaways comic. Rainbow doesn’t like things and has severe social anxiety. She admitted all of these things very nonchalantly during our conversation with her during Comic Con. This is what I mean about her realness. Of course… context. She doesn’t blindly follow behind the sheep and likes things just because it’s the thing to do. She doesn’t like it when people record her interviews and panels because her high anxiety would cause her to bomb her next appearance. Rainbow busted her ass to bring The Runaways back from the Marvel graveyard. It took her three years, but she made it happen because she genuinely felt that there were more stories about our favorite group of super-powered teen heroes to be told. Rainbow gave away a few gems during her time with us. She got into the process of selecting the new cover art and deciding how to age the characters, while paying homage to original Runaways cover at the same damn time.

She considers this a “getting the band back…