Interview with Piper of Graded 0.5 about Peregrine: Wings Of The Falcon

   I.C.U. caught up with Graded 0.5's Piper to talk about their project Peregrine: Wings of the Falcon, now In Demand on IndieGogo

Peregrine is a super hero graphic novel, currently In Demand on IndieGogo. For those unfamiliar, What is Peregrine?
   Peregrine: Wings of the Falcon is the flagship book in our "REconstruction" universe.  It's about a young college student named Jessica Armstrong that wanted to live as normal a life as possible, but has always been in her superhero parents shadow - especially her dad's, the most famous of super heroes. 

The campaign promises a return to true heroism in comics. Why do you think it has gone missing and why is it important to bring it back?
   I think the "deconstruction of the superhero" style story was an interesting avenue for writers to explore at first and really matured the genre a bit, but now it's been done to the point that current iconic heroes are no longer likable. They took it from "hey they're just like us but with powers" to "hey they're actually just awful people with powers that only help others for some sort of selfish reason".
​   We get into these stories for the entertainment and escapism, so it's important to have a better balance of fun and coherent storytelling. Heroes are iconic for their heroism, after all.

It sounds like Peregrine will have a difficult choice of deciding whether or not to try and live up to her father's legacy. What inspired the struggle that she will go through?
   One thing that inspired the struggle is simply the fact that legacy characters in mainstream comics seem to be done lazier and lazier over the years.  Often it's simply a new character taking on the name and costume of an iconic one and that's it.
​    We decided to start Peregrine off after her father is already out of the picture, so the audience doesn't go in with any expectations based on a former character (but will get to see the world's expectations first-hand).  What also inspired her struggle is the fact that yes, being any kind of hero is often no picnic. People may want to save lives if they can, but having that as your responsibility isn't glamorous at all. 

Does Peregrine have a rogues gallery and will we meet them?
   She does! It's rather small right now but will continue to grow as we go. You will get to meet a couple in this book.

The book looks fantastic. How did the team for Peregrine come together?
   Thank you so much! Most of us met when we where brought together to do a comic book review podcast called "Graded 0.5" roughly 6 years ago. That show grew and evolved over the years and eventually became the YouTube channel and website everyone knows us for now.

    We constantly played around with comic ideas but they never left the "that would be a good comic" phase - until we started interviewing indie creators on our streams. After talking to so many creators we realized - this is something we can actually do!  The team ended up chatting with writer Scott McCullough after a stream with him and the rest is kinda history,  lol.  Scott has also introduced us to the people he's worked with on his other projects and kinda walked us through how the creation process works. 

Can we expect more Peregrine in the future?
   As long as the demand is there we have tons of Peregrine and other REconstruction stories to tell, as well as some set outside the REconstruction-verse!

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