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COMICS: ROGUE ONE

“There’s a moral
has been up to? Well, some of Duane, what more can you say
the Empire’s garbage has ended about Kertas and Rismor?
up on Wecacoe—a fl ea market DS: They are twins, and they grayness to Cassian.
planet—and Cassian believes are both intelligence specialists. We don’t know exactly
it might contain some security They’re my version of an alien
protocols. The Empire may have femme fatale character—times what he’s capable of.”
done the equivalent of running two! They’re the opposite of K-2SO
their protocols through a paper in that you have no idea what
shredder, but Kertas and Rismor is going through their minds at
are really good at taping those any moment. That makes them
strips back together again. The interesting... and dangerous. Fernando, how did you approach
mission, however, is far more risky I thought it’d be fun to have these femme fatale twins?
than Cassian realized, and it’s not intelligence specialists who are not FB: The script describes them as
long before he’s trapped in a very just too brilliant to understand, but “feminine, big eyes, almost non-
desperate situation: a situation actually impossible to comprehend. existent mouths.” That could be
that inspires him to do something Their “speech” is chemical-based a description of any manga-style
equally desperate. rather than vocal. That was inspired character, so I think that was
by something my wife once said— unconsciously the first thing I tried

Fernando, how did you set about that she notices someone’s scent to avoid, because these two should

creating Wecacoe? long before any other personal look definitely alien and not like
FB: I found inspiration in Moroccan detail. I thought that was kind of stylized humans. I also tried to
and Egyptian souk markets, where, cool and weird. It also inspired me draw them in a way where you
out of all the things available, the to shower more! can’t tell if they’re boys or girls, or
most interesting thing you can In every story, I like to give teenage or adult. They’re aliens, so
find is life itself. You can fi nd a myself a set of creative handcuffs. they don’t need to be classifi ed by

lot of alien species in our market, For instance, what if you tell an gender or any other human code.
along with droids, street musicians, action story where no one can use In my imagination they could be
bounty hunters, tourists, starship guns? In this case, I wanted to have like one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s non-
engines, food stalls—anything. a spy team where the members gendered alien races. The script
I want to make the reader feel like really couldn’t talk to each other, describes them as twins, but in the
all of these elements have a story which means you have to fi gure story we don’t even know if they
behind them. out other ways to communicate. are really sisters!

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