Everything from the characters, to the world-building and the plot, I had to attack again and again, and keep restructuring and refining. “It’s like being in a candy store - my eyes were bigger than my stomach. “I told myself, ‘I got this, I know what it is, it’s going to be epic.’ But that was overconfidence,” she continued. The story touches on social and political issues as lead character Maika goes from slave to prisoner to … something altogether different. The result is a first issue that includes not only girls and giant monsters, but also world-building on a scale rare in mainstream comics. I wanted to tell a story about war, and surviving war - and I wanted to set it all in an alternate Asia.” “I wanted to write about girls and monsters, which has been a theme of mine from almost the start of my career - girls and giant monsters, and the supernatural. “I didn’t realize how massive it was until I started writing it, and realized I had totally underestimated both the size of the project, and my own ability to wrap my head around it,” Liu says of the series.
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