Gail Simone's Blog, page 1044
March 26, 2012
»My favourite comic book ladies - Black Canary
NO ONE is...
»My favourite comic book ladies - Black Canary
NO ONE is more fun to write. No one.
March 25, 2012
feministhistorian:
iamateenagefeminist:
homoarigato:
Good for...
Good for you. Want a cookie?
Ahhhh, I love these so much.
HAVE ALL OF THE COOKIES
I couldn't stop laughing.
Okay, that's awesome.
fyeahlilbitoeverything:
Community: Wonder Shirley by...
Community: Wonder Shirley by ph00
Trying to make the WW tag a little less gross!
That is a great Wonder Woman!
rurone:
dollyx:
Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most prolific...
Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most prolific serial killers in all of history.
She was born into nobility and was highly educated but also very vain.
One day, infuriated, Elizabeth struck one of her servant girls so hard that some blood dripped from her face onto Elizabeth's hand and she immediately thought that her skin took on a glowing freshness of her young maid.
Elizabeth believed she had found the secret of eternal youth. After this, women were abducted and hung upside down, while they were still alive and their throats were slit to prepare Elizabeth's bath.
The Countess of Transylvania and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted.
Inspiration for Jeanette's origin story, methinks?
She is, and it's in canon. Jeannette was Elizabet Bathory's last victim, and it was Jeannette who murdered her.
People Are Saying...
…that Rocket and Icon may have ongoing roles in the upcoming DCU cartoons.
Seriously, tears. SO happy.
DUANE! LOOK! ROCKET AND ICON!
How were the sexual politics different in your draft of Wonder Woman?
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Well, first, my story was less of an action story, so there was a bit more room for humor and the Amazons themselves. I think the feminism in the movie is well-intentioned but it feels like a conversation that we have already mostly had, like first wave stuff.
I never wanted to do a story that was man vs. woman, but the film definitely had elements of that.
HOWEVER, Michael's script was tighter and the action is fun, and he added a ton of elements I really like. I have no beef with what they did at all, they were great to me and very respectful. But they wanted something a little more direct. And truthfully, I think my version would have baffled some parents who just wanted a great action story. I will add that I like the film a great deal and I have people routinely coming up at cons saying how it made them a Wonder Woman fan, so they definitely made that happen.
I gave my thoughts about how it shifted in this interview at Afterellen.com
http://www.afterellen.com/people/2009/4/gailsimone-part1?page=0%2C0
The HandDrawn Hero: Reason #632 Why I'm a Gail Simone Fan
#632: She just defended a friend of hers from Roseanne Barr on Twitter. Nbd.
That was very weird. :)
But thanks!
I admire Roseanne, she's a trailblazer. The whole thing was surreal.
It was just really bizarre to see the odd social interactions of…
I have had that happen a lot of times, that hairdresser thing. When some guy wants to dismiss my opinion, they often bring up that I was a hairdresser, like I'm supposed to be ashamed of that.
(This wasn't Roseanne, by the way, it was some writer guy named Ward Webb or similar, can't recall).
For the record, I am not ashamed of being a hairdresser. It's a hard job, the schooling is hard, the job itself is demanding, I had my own salon which I ran in the most ethical way I could (people who made racist or homophobic statements were told they would be happier someone else and never given another appointment).
I was poor when I went to beauty college, worked nights to pay for it with little help from family, and I was proud of the work I did. When you are a cosmetologist, you do the first haircuts of a toddler, you do the transformative haircut that gives a person confidence and can change their lives, you do bride's haircut on the day of her wedding, and you do the last haircut of the woman who wants to look nice for her funeral. It's demanding, and it can be draining, and it can be lovely and rewarding.
Almost every writer I know had a different job first. Brian Bendis worked at McDonalds, Ed Brubaker was a sales clerk, Mark Waid was a lounge singer at one point. The thought of insulting those talented guys because they worked while honing their craft is really noxious to me.
So, guys who hate my guts, there's much better ammo to use against me than calling me a hairdresser. I'm proud of my time doing hair.
And I was GREAT at it. :)
I love all of this.
But let's be real: MARK WAID WAS A LOUNGE SINGER??
He just got ten thousand times cooler.
Dude, I know. And it gets weirder…have Mark tell you sometime!
fyeahlilbitoeverything:
jncera:
So why didn't anyone bring up...
So why didn't anyone bring up ARTEMIS? ;__;
Didn't they? M'gann was definitely shown as one of the candidates. Maybe they thought Artemis was too inexperienced since she started her superhero career after the others?
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT.
Holy SHIT. You mean Rocket and Icon were in this?
ROCKET and ICON?
I MISSED IT!
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
rurone:
gailsimone:
— Cliff Chiang
I had a story of Zinda...
— Cliff Chiang
I had a story of Zinda and a very Tuskegee-like squadron that I was dying to do, and now probably never will. This shot just makes me sadder about that.
CLIFF CHANG, WHY DO YOU DRAW SO GOOD?
I didn't realize that the men who were the basis of the movie Red Tails trained in Tuskegee! That area later earned itself a very different reputation regarding black men and the United States government…
It wasn't that great during the Tuskegee experiment, either. The film barely begins to show the crap they had to put up with.
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