As a native* San Franciscan, when one of us breaks into the world of comics, we must all celebrate their greatness. Thankfully, the latest person to do so was already worthy of such celebration, as James Sime points out at the Isotope site:

Ever notice how Mark Wahlberg keeps making movie after movie about true stories of fans who make the bigtime by becoming the lead singer of their favorite band or a wide receiver for their favorite football team? Those Wahlberg films might have a similar theme, but frankly, we don’t care. Those are the kind true stories that touch all the world’s hearts and bring a tear to the eye of anyone who ever had a dream.

With that in mind, let us tell you the true story of Mindy Owens, a comic fan whose inspirational story is the stuff of major motion pictures. Since the series inception, Mindy has loved the Runaways comic. And has proven time and again why she is why she is the biggest Runaways fan on the planet with evangelism and enthusiasm to spare.

When popular original series author Brian K. Vaughan decided to leave the series and Marvel announced that they were going to replace him with none other than Joss Whedon it looked to us here at the Isotope that the series was going from strength to strength… and that was before we knew who was writing the issue in-between these two legendary authors.

You guessed it, it’s Mindy Owens!

Debuting her first comic work with this week’s Runaways Saga, Ms. Owens isn’t only writing her all-time favorite comic book, going professional at the biggest comic publisher in the industry right out of the gate, and cashing that Marvel Comics paycheck with the picture of Spider-Man on it that comic fans the world over covet… but she’s also getting a big bash thrown in her honor right here at the Isotope!

Your Mom’s Basement interviews the Mindster – as her fans will now call her – about the experience:

C.B. Cebulski contacted me on New Year’s Eve asking if I could help him out with something. The Saga had already been in Previews, so I just assumed he needed some help with some continuity questions. Turns out that help he was interested in was help co-writing the Saga itself… This was definitely a team project. Aside from the bookend story that C.B. did by himself, the rest was a ton of back and forth via e-mails. E-mailing him the first go at the draft was a nerve-wracking time as I spent so much time fine tuning everything. Would an eleven-year old say it like this? Does this flow right? Have I used this word too many times? Molly’s pretty tough to write and doing all those pages in her voice? Yikes.

Let me abuse the power this blog gives me to raise a virtual glass to Mindy and announce that soon, all of you will be worshipping her.

Which is to say, congratulations, Mindy.

(* – This is untrue.)

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