Chief Pardo is not in this book and you find out at the very end in the wanted villains that he’s actually wanted for helping the Mousetress get out. I like the idea that it goes into those things you never see, which are what happens after. How do you figure out how to have both friends? If that’s actually something you want, it’s like you can grow apart, but you also can figure ways to come back together too if it really is a strong friendship. What about her old best friend? There’s still that friendship there. The whole thing with like Katie, yes, she has a new best friend, but that’s not perfect. She’s really dealing with something right now. I wanted in this book to be like, “Everything’s not great.” Mousetress is freaked out. So many superheroes are so episodic and then it’s done, and everything is great. There’s never any emotional lingering over those things. I feel like so many times when you see friends break up or this superhero has been captured, and got out and this and that, there’s never any ramifications. The Beat got the chance to catch up with Venable and Yue over Zoom to ask all about the role of clothing in the seres, to find out why which character design was influenced by GLOW, and to discover why the Top 10 Hero Ranking (sponsored by Kelmount Cape Wax) is always such a boy’s club!ĪVERY KAPLAN: What was it like to return to the world of Katie, Mousetress, and the 217 cats for a second story?ĬOLLEEN AF VENABLE: It’s really fun to return to these characters. Fortunately, there are 217 cats at hand who are ready to lend a paw (especially The Cuteness, who is here for ANY welding job). On top of that, Katie’s relationship with Beth is further strained when Beth gets a boyfriend. The Mousetress is being blamed for things she definitely didn’t do, and now she’s spending all her time bingeing The Great Crumpet Showdown. In Katie the Catsitter: Best Friends for Never by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue, with colors by Braden Lamb, the story of Katie continues as she and her friends deal with the fallout of the first graphic novel. Katie the Catsitter: Best Friends for Never is available beginning today.

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