Fantasy Advertiser #107 (1988)
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From APA Interlac 73 (originally from Fantasy Advertiser #107), thanks to Isamu H
When I did "Who Killed Myndi Mayer", no one counted on it being an anti-drug book, by it's very nature. And even when we found out she was an addict, no one criticized her for being an addict. One person said, "if she was an addict, I'd feel sorry for her," they were more concerned that she was a criminal, they thought she was doing criminal acts. The fact that she was an addict, was something "that happens, and unfortunately it was happening to her. She's dead now. Criticizing her because she was an addict, now that she's dead, didn't seem the right thing to do. Also, one person pointed out , and it never really occurred to me in the Myndi Mayer story, which is probably why it showed a message without being as blatant as it could had been: it's one of the rare times in comics that a drug story was done with the victim not a teenager.
She's a forty-year-old woman, obviously a woman who would know better. Doesn't have that same peer pressure a child would have, but still, just as a much a victim. That the drug problem is practically ageless, really.
KG: Sure is.
GP: To me it was such a natural progression of the character, it never occurred to me that I was doing something different, because, again, like the scene with Menalippe, it seemed logical, it just followed through. It never occurred to me that it was unusual.
Source:
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