MINNEAPOLIS — Because Ben Percy's daughter Madeline wanted more female heroes, the Northfield writer's new movie opens Friday, with a lot of them.
"One day, after she got off the bus, I heard the backpack dump and her going upstairs," said Percy, who writes Wolverine comics for Marvel and whose books include "Suicide Woods" and "The Unfamiliar Garden." "I went upstairs and she was at the family computer, typing away. The document that was open was titled 'The Girl Hobbit' and she already had a few juicy paragraphs."
That incident helped bring home things that both Madeline — then 11, now 13 — and Ben were thinking about.
