Interview: G. Willow Wilson, Famed Comic Book Author, on Seattle Sounders and Superhero Fandom

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Shireen Ahmed interviews G. Willow Wilson, an award-winning author of many novels and comics, including recent Ms. Marvel series from Disney+ featuring Kamala Khan. They discuss how Willow became a Seattle Sounders super fan, why fandom is important part of Kamala Khan's story and the ways in which comic book and soccer communities intersect. They also do a deep dive on Willow's favorite ice cream sundae and choose their ultimate five-aside soccer team from Marvel characters. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:04.4	And I'm so excited
0:05.6	with your baby still the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.6	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:11.7	Flamethrowers.
0:13.0	I am so excited to have our next guest on.
0:16.5	G. Willow Wilson.
0:17.7	Yes, the G. Willow Wilson.
0:38.1	Willow is the author of the acclaimed novel, The Bird King, 2019, co-creator of Hugo and the American Book Award-winning comic book series, Ms. Marvel, which in case you haven't heard, I don't know why you wouldn't have heard, but it's now a Disney Plus television series. She's written some of the world's best-known superhero comics, including the X-Men, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Her first novel,
0:43.7	Aleph the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was the finalist
0:49.4	for the center of fiction's first novel prize and was long listed for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction.
0:56.7	In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the Penn America Literary Awards.
1:03.0	Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
1:07.4	She lives in Seattle and is a self-described Sounders fan. Welcome, Willow. Thank you so much,
1:14.3	Shereen. I'm so happy to be here. Marhaba. So let's dig into it. I am so interested in your
1:24.8	Seattle Sounders love. Like I will come clean and I'll say that of all the football that I watch, MLS is not
1:32.1	my first go-to, but you are a committed fan.
1:36.5	What is it with the Sounders?
1:38.6	Let's big this up a bit.
1:40.1	Tell me about this.
1:41.0	You know, no one is more surprised than I. And it really all began for me
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