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Its about loss, making art, and hanging onto family, says the best-selling author of theUgliesseries.
And getting away from monsters on a motorcycle.
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Thats just one of the many theories.
It could have been an alien visitation or a spillover from some kind of Cthulhu-world.
Maybe theres no way to know.
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But the storywasinspired by two industrial accidents from the late 1980s.
One was the Chernobyl nuclear accident, which I assume everyone knows about.
She showed it off to neighbors, spreading disaster to the entire city.
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We dont often see stories of artists set in dystopias.
Of course, Addison is a tragic knight.
Thats why losing your family is so devastating its like your home planet has exploded.
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What is the biggest threat Addison will be going up against?
But inSpill Zone, the monsters are the real monsters.
The humans are just dickheads.
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Vespertine, Lexas doll, seems to be possessed by a Spill-related spirit of some kind.
What can you tease about that?I tried to make the Spill Zone itself into a character.
In a way, Vespertine give the Zone its own voice as well.
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Her acerbic banter is like the setting talking to us.
Dolls see everything, of course, so they always know more than we think they do.
You also have a prequel,Spill Night, coming out for Free Comic Book Day.
They were very polite and kind but made me realize I had no idea what I was doing.
So I hatched a plan to fix that.
Then the awesome Devin Grayson was hired.
Basically, I tricked someone into paying me to learn how to write comic books!
So when I returned toSpill Zone, I had a much better idea of what I was doing.
