"Because damage and pain are inflicted by people who have been damaged and are in pain. If we fail to understand this cycle, we're condemned to repeat it. One thing that came up early on in our discussions was the idea that even the original Sentinels were products of emotion. We think of them as remorselessly logical and cold, but in reality, Sentinels are just human paranoia given form. They're lumps of congealed fear, born of an acute sense of vulnerability and inadequacy."
- Alex Paknadel

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"The idea of incarcerating mutants to protect mutants is some pretty Orwellian doublethink — and yet most of us, myself very much included, internalize less absurd contradictions in our daily lives. In many ways, this is a book about the comforting lies we tell ourselves to cope with those contradictions."
-- Alex Paknadel

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"Well, one of the ways we first approached this was looking at, first and foremost, what characters did we love? If you only get one chance to write X-Men, you should write the things that you love and care about. And for us, that meant going deep and pulling, not necessarily the classics, but finding those characters that exist in the corners who haven't had their full story told. A character like Anole, who I've always loved since he was just a little green lad going up through his journey of not only discovering how to be a lizard man but how to be queer within that space is an incredible story. And yes, he's been trapped behind a bar, but what does that mean now that he's forced to get out of it? That's a rich story that we feel deserves to be told."
-- Collin Kelly

"'Victor' is a story of how community deals w/ tragedy & hate through sorrow and celebration."
-- Jackson Lanzing

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