Gail Simone's Blog, page 1014

Anya was from the New Corps miniseries back in the 90s, when Kyle tried to start a new GLC and it kinda failed. Anya was a Russian lady, and she was basically the only pick to work out. I think the original questioner was hoping that might get a chance t

I must have missed that series. She sounds awesome.

I miss a lot of big things from the old DCU, but the ache really comes with some of the minor characters who are unlikely to return for years, if ever. It’s sad not to have that incredible backlog of characters to draw from.

It’s huge fun to create new stuff, but it also is painful to think of the thousands of great characters who are on an island somewhere where we can’t get to them.

Anya was from the New Corps miniseries back in the 90s, when Kyle tried to start a new GLC and it kinda failed. Anya was a Russian lady, and she was basically the only pick to work out. I think the original questioner was hoping that might get a chance t

I must have missed that series. She sounds awesome.

I miss a lot of big things from the old DCU, but the ache really comes with some of the minor characters who are unlikely to return for years, if ever. It’s sad not to have that incredible backlog of characters to draw from.

It’s huge fun to create new stuff, but it also is painful to think of the thousands of great characters who are on an island somewhere where we can’t get to them.

I can't claim any awesome - the amazing and undoubtedly awesome cosplayers and photographers who I'm reblogging deserve all the love and credit. Speaking of whom, I've managed to track down the amazing Marvel Girl cosplayer, who goes by the handle peachym0

Yeah, but some days, all I do is reblog the awesome stuff you put on your Tumblr, so TAKE SOME DAMN CREDIT, YOU.

And thanks for tracking down that cosplayer, that photo made my day. She even got the perfect wig and fabric choices. Amazing!

And it’s cool that you took the steps to find her. :)

I can't claim any awesome - the amazing and undoubtedly awesome cosplayers and photographers who I'm reblogging deserve all the love and credit. Speaking of whom, I've managed to track down the amazing Marvel Girl cosplayer, who goes by the handle peachym0

Yeah, but some days, all I do is reblog the awesome stuff you put on your Tumblr, so TAKE SOME DAMN CREDIT, YOU.

And thanks for tracking down that cosplayer, that photo made my day. She even got the perfect wig and fabric choices. Amazing!

And it’s cool that you took the steps to find her. :)

I can't claim any awesome - the amazing and undoubtedly awesome cosplayers and photographers who I'm reblogging deserve all the love and credit. Speaking of whom, I've managed to track down the amazing Marvel Girl cosplayer, who goes by the handle peachym0

Yeah, but some days, all I do is reblog the awesome stuff you put on your Tumblr, so TAKE SOME DAMN CREDIT, YOU.

And thanks for tracking down that cosplayer, that photo made my day. She even got the perfect wig and fabric choices. Amazing!

And it’s cool that you took the steps to find her. :)

I can't claim any awesome - the amazing and undoubtedly awesome cosplayers and photographers who I'm reblogging deserve all the love and credit. Speaking of whom, I've managed to track down the amazing Marvel Girl cosplayer, who goes by the handle peachym0

Yeah, but some days, all I do is reblog the awesome stuff you put on your Tumblr, so TAKE SOME DAMN CREDIT, YOU.

And thanks for tracking down that cosplayer, that photo made my day. She even got the perfect wig and fabric choices. Amazing!

And it’s cool that you took the steps to find her. :)

rukafais:Masks and masks and masks and masks.However can you...

rukafais:

Masks and masks and masks and masks.

However can you find yourself if you’re drowning in them?

That is beautiful, and the exact sentiment I was going for with Ragdoll’s trip to Hell. Lovely.

thatdjspider:Why yes, yes I have DJ’d as Dazzler :)(DragonCon...

thatdjspider:

Why yes, yes I have DJ’d as Dazzler :)

(DragonCon 2010 for Con*Tourage, photo by Joe Hunt/PhotoGnome)

DAMN YOU, ANGELOPHILE!

Why do you take up all the internet’s awesome and leave none for the rest of us?

LOOK AT THAT PHOTO!

I feel a bit bad asking another question soon after asking one, and I try to stay away from talking about sexism because... Well IDK why... but um I understand why Jade isn't really considered an Earth Green Lantern since she's separated from the corp to s

I am sorry, I’m not great with GL stuff, I’m not sure who that character is.

Shame about Jade, though, I love her!

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:kat8cha:^ Indeed :DI wouldn’t...

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

kat8cha:

^ Indeed :D

I wouldn’t mind experiencing some of that ‘Amazon mating play’

Especially from Diana ;D

Whenever anyone asks what the best part of writing Wonder Woman was, I get a little stumped. I knew it was a big deal to write THE female superhero, the archetypal badass female adventurer. I knew it would be tricky, I knew it would require a ton of planning and care.

But I didn’t know it would be so goddamn fun.

Hippolyta. Phillipus. Etta. The white apes. Theymiscira. Artemis. Alkyone. The Circle. Achilles. The Amazons. Dr. Psycho. Cheetah. Wonder Girl. Donna Troy.

It was a difficult, often frustrating assignment, and the readership is SO intense and hardcore that even minor perceived missteps were treated like the work of the devil.

But lord god, it was also so much FUN.

I loved working with those wonderful, amazing characters, playing with that mythology. And I think it is more female than almost any mainstream comic of the last couple decades. A lot of great male writers write wonderful female characters, and bless them all, but THIS Wonder Woman was going to deal with the real thing, the real female experience. And what that means, in terms of society. It was about sisterhood, motherhood, jealousy, empathy, birth, death, blood, pain, opression, loyalty, transformation, identity and joy.

Maybe the most fun I have ever had writing comics.

And the most fun, if I had to narrow it down, to write was the early days of Tom’s and Diana’s (sadly doomed) courtship. Tom was being inexplicably written as kind of a dick, and I didn’t understand why, so I tried to bridge that interpretation with his original one, and explain his recent dickery  a little. But it was lovely to see what it would really mean for a fairly normal guy to try to date a princess/goddess/warrior/superhero. And Diana’s askew sense of humor and Tom’s plain speaking quality made that an absolute pleasure. When Diana comes to the hospital to announce that she is courting him, and later, when Hippolyta gives him her approval to date Diana, those are two of my favorite scenes I have ever written anywhere.

I miss a lot of characters I don’t write any longer, but to this day, it’s tough to see a great Wonder Woman drawing and not want to go back and write her again.