And she’s just like, You know what, you want a monster? You got one. At the end, she becomes this monster - the monster everybody’s been telling her that she is. “I was looking for an outlet for my emotions, and I felt like I wasn’t really able to express them,” Stevenson said at the press day. And in his 2020 memoir The Fire Never Goes Out, he collects diary comics from that time period, tracking his mental health struggles and difficulties with self-expression, which he channeled into the original Nimona. At his Substack, I’m Fine I’m Fine Just Understand, Stevenson recently posted a particularly funny and self-effacing cartoon blog about looking back at the comic and how he wrote about it at the time without realizing what he was expressing about himself. Stevenson, who has come out as trans since beginning Nimona in 2012 as an art school project, has only recently realized how much Nimona’s powers to change her own shape were an unconscious trans fantasy.
That was something that I found very cathartic at the time.” She has a lot of fear and a lot of pain at her heart, and that comes out as anger. “Nimona is not just quirky, she’s not just fun, she’s not just a cool kick-butt protagonist.
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“One thing that I think is really important about this story for me - and it was really important to see in the movie - was the darkness at the heart of it,” Stevenson said. While she gets a much clearer backstory in the movie, she’s still the most recognizable character from the book, both in terms of her looks and her personality. Nimona, a mysterious shape-changer who arrives at Ballister’s secret fortress and demands to be his sidekick after he’s framed as a villain, is the heart of both the book and the movie versions of the story.
“But it was always really important to me that Nimona herself remain the center of this story, and that the things that made her were not removed or sanded down or simplified too much.” “In the adaptation, I knew that things were going to change,” Stevenson said in a presentation livestreamed for select press outlets. The second protagonist, whose name has changed tellingly from Ballister Blackheart to Ballister Boldheart, is a much softer and more helpless character in the movie, and his story is massively different.Īt a press day leading up to Nimona’s release, writer-artist ND Stevenson explained that all those changes felt necessary, but that none of them mattered as much as preserving the title character as she was originally written. The movie’s retro-futurist world - a blend of sci-fi technology and medieval culture - is somewhat like the book’s, but it has much more structure and history, with more emphasis on the ruling class. The style of humor has changed radically, even with some of the specific gags preserved. When the animated movie Nimona arrives on Netflix on June 30, fans of the original webcomic Nimona and the graphic novel that collects it will immediately notice massive changes to the story.
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