- Duggan had been wanting to do an X-Men book for a long time but the timing never worked out (Ketchum such a great editor that he bet the house on Guggs in 2017)
- Duggan’s had a lot of friends who changed their name at one point or another and he thought it was time Kitty became Kate. Says it’s a legacy name but don’t read too much into the DoFP relation because that’s old stuff and they’re done with that
- There was too much craziness going on during HoxPox for someone to pick Kate up with the Blackbird
- JDW came up with Kate’s disadvantaged position
- Iceman is one of the most important characters in the book
- The Hellfire stuff is going to be high stakes soap opera
- Next issue will be Hellfire-centric and after that the spotlight moves around. Duggan notes that all his team books give every character their due