A: This is me putting my sociologist’s hat on and saying that I think that comics have always been a reflection of the era in which they’re produced. How does this comic reflect the social anxieties of the time? For me, the social anxiety I’m trying to play around with is what is the role of young people as leaders, how do we make space for young people to step up and articulate their own ideas? How are people also fearful about doing that and afraid of doing that and also these ideas of safety and security versus freedom. Very famously, that is a theme that was explored heavily in “Civil War” which is a Marvel event for an earlier generation. I think some of those same ideas about what does it mean to be safe, and what happens when we’re asked to choose between our so-called safety and our freedom, what do we do and who gets to determine what safety even means...I think that those questions are still really relevant. I want to explore them in this different context with young people where I think it really raises the stakes where it’s like: 'Am I going to count on a 17-year-old to be the person who comes to save me? Do I feel okay with that? Is that fair to that 17-year-old? What is my responsibility to them to keep them safe, but also how do we resist being ageist, how do we resist being condescending? To me, there’s no clear answer about that — those are the some of the anxieties and tensions that I’m trying to play with in 20 pages a pop.