Gail Simone's Blog, page 1042
March 27, 2012
planb-becomeapirate:
gailsimone:
One of the things I was very...
One of the things I was very proud of in my first run of BOP is that we had no serious romantic subplots through the entire five year run. I felt it was important to show that a book with female leads didn't HAVE to be about romance or the girls talking about boys. There's nothing wrong with that, but how many media portrayals of straight female leads actually manage to NOT have that element constantly? It's a way of saying that women have no value absent from their relationship and value to men. Male action heroes can go without a romantic subplot and no one blinks twice. But there is a constant buzz in the air around all female leads about who they should be sleeping with.
To read this meant a lot to me. The graphic novel I'm working on has a female lead and the story is heavy on action but is about family, about finding yourself, about a girl trying to rescue her father amidst navigating a whole strange new world with a gift she does not know how to use. One of the biggest complaints I've received so far on it is the lack of a love interest.
Don't misunderstand me, there are plenty of males, the antagonist is a male, the mentor is a male. But people cannot get past the fact that this nineteen year old female protagonist does not have a guy that she is invested in. There is a character that she feels an attraction to but he serves more as a representation of a "normal life", and she has to make a choice about whether she wants to try to live her own life or give it all up to get her father back. The story is compelling, the concept is solid (it's about a girl who can walk through people's dreams for cripes sake), but there's this hang up on her social life or lack thereof.
Why does she need a guy? Or even a girl? Why does she need a love interest?
There is plenty of love in the story, the love of a man for his wife, the love of a daughter for her father. It's bursting with love and it is beyond frustrating to be told that it's not the right kind.
(via fuckyeahbirdsofpreycomics)
I am sort of in love with Adriana Melo's art in this sequence. WOW.
daggerpen:
arrowinc:
metakate:
Why this woman is my hero.
CHWftw ……she has just became mine...
Why this woman is my hero.
CHWftw ……she has just became mine too
I feel your pain, Gail.
There HAS to be a way to bring him back. He doesn't need to be Ollie's son, right?
The Peddler of Smiles: queerandpresentdanger: In Secret Documents, Anti-Gay Marriage Group...
In Secret Documents, Anti-Gay Marriage Group Looked To Divide Gays, Blacks
Who's shocked? National Organization for Marriage (NOM) sought to continue "fanning hostility" and aimed to "sideswipe Obama" by finding "attractive black…
Was just about to post this. If anyone still doubts how cynical and cruel these people are, HOLY CRAP WAKE UP.
Finally!
Harry Potter ebooks are now available for direct purchase for the Nook ereader, and http://www.pottermore.com/ for other ereaders, including the Kindle.
Man, it is ABOUT TIME.
coco19:
girls of secret six
love them
Awwww. Bittersweet to...
girls of secret six
love them
Awwww. Bittersweet to see them all looking so grand and fierce!
Someday, I hope they come back!
Lois Quote of the Day
Everyday I write the book. The book of what it's like to be married to him. The kindness. The strength. The sense of decency that radiates off him so intensely, it's almost visible. I want the world to know about him -- how he looks when he's sleeping, how he loves blueberry pancakes, but only if the berries are fresh, not frozen..and how, sometimes, in my heart of hearts, how even I still find new mysteries in him.
Because life with Superman isn't all blueberries and light suppers on the moon.
Sometimes it's alien invasions and mad scientists and Kryptonite poisoning. Sometimes it's having honest-to-gosh demons and wizards on you enemies list. And yet the only thing that really scares him, the only thing that ever slows him down is the thought of the people he loves getting hurt. And that's the kind of heroism people should know about.
People should understand his example. The super-speed kisses goodbye, the snap of his capes as he takes to the air. People should know. And every day I write the book. Be a bestseller...never leave the charts, probably. But to be honest, and more than a little selfish, I share my beautiful husband with the world enough. And these things, these small things I cherish, and these huge fears I endure -- these I'm keeping for myself for awhile.
So everyday I write the book...and every night I tear it up again.
~Action Comics #830
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I wrote the above...writing Lois and Clark together, how they needed each other, two titans in love, was absolutely my favorite part of writing that book.
March 26, 2012
APE IN A CAPE: When Someone Says...
"I have black friends," or, "I have gay friends," or, "most of my friends are women,"…
…and you just know the next thing they say is going to be hideous and bigoted…
…don't you just want to punch something?
GOD YES.
This happens more…
I've just learned to stop listening whenever some bigoted asshole tries to use a phrase like this to claim that they're not bigoted
I know I won't be missing out on anything of worth by ignoring every word they say
Sorry but sometimes a person has a legitimate reason for saying "I have gay/black/etc friends". For example, a girl I knew who was not physically attracted to black men was called racist by a black man who wanted to date her and she said she was sorry but she was not attracted to him and he accused her of racism. She pointed out the fact that her best friend is black and that she just wasn't attracted to him. How is what she said bigoted? Should we be guilted into dating someone we are not attracted to simply because they belong to an oppressed minority?
Sorry, anyway….
My brain just snapped in a hundred directions.
Congratulations to J.H. Williams III, W. Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder!
Batwoman received the honor of Outstanding Comic Book at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York! Further evidence that Kate is amazing!
http://www.glaad.org/releases/list-award-recipients-23rd-annual-glaad-media-awards-presented-ketel-one-and-wells-fargo
Well deserved. Consistently putting out one of the best books on the stands!
HOORAY!
shaolinsuckerpunch:
gailsimone:
digsyiscomics:
Secret Six...
Secret Six v2 #2, August 2006, written by Gail Simone, penciled by Brad Walker
That issue was one of the hardest things to write I have ever been involved with.
It turned out to be great mini series. I really miss this book. There's gotta be some room in the new DCU for this title…eventually right?
I'm really proud of it, but I am extremely pro-human rights and anti-torture. When i show torture, I want it to be real and to have consequences. I don't want 24 crap.
So writing those scenes, I think I've really only done two, that is very uncomfortable for me even knowing that it's fiction.
I hope they will come back! A lot of stuff we thought was coming back quickly has really gotten delayed.
And thank you!
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