Gail Simone's Blog, page 1061

Hey, I was wondering your take on this. In the beginning both Wonder Woman and Superman were only powerful enough to jump tall buildings and stop a speeding locomotive. But over the years Superman's power has grown and all that, and now he's been said to b

You would not believe how seriously some Wonder Woman fans take this question. Honestly, I saw it time and again, where people who just be enraged if you said Wonder Woman wasn't as strong as Superman.

So I got in trouble a lot, because I don't think she is. I have almost zero interest in how many tons precisely one of them can lift over the other, I just don't think it's interesting.

I feel Superman is the strongest DCU hero for physical strength. We're talking pre-new 52 here.  However, does that make Batman less interesting? No. Because Batman has twenty things he does better than Superman.

To me, what Wonder Woman is, is a much, much, MUCH better fighter than Superman. He may be stronger, but she can still clean his clock on a regular basis. I'd say it's at least fifty/fifty.  He can lift a battleship with his nose hair, whatever, but WONDER WOMAN has been taught how to fight EVERY DAY OF HER LIFE BY THE BEST WARRIORS ON THE PLANET.

She's fast, cunning, brilliant, experienced, gifted, and dangerous beyond measure. I love that.

Truthfully, characters being JUST powerful makes them less interesting to me. There has to be a chance they can lose, or their heroism means nothing. I love Wonder Woman because she has to think, to strategize. And THEN she kicks everyone's ass and goes and has a hot cocoa in the jacuzzi. :)

Girls Read Comics Too

This is one of my favorite comics sites right now, go look!

http://girlsreadcomics.com/

Just a fun reminder of the powerful and hugely entertaining things happening with women both making and appearing in comics. 

I love sites like this, they really remind me of the positive aspects of comics far better than magazines like Wizard ever did. Just smart, spunky women talking about comics. I really enjoy it. Go see!

One Of My Pro Friends

…someone I really respect, is being kind of a jerk online to readers.

I can't cast stones, I have lost my patience and said things I regret on several occasions.

But WOW, it just comes across as so condescending and obnoxious, and this person is not like that at all in real life. Whats' more, he's 100% in the wrong in this case.

Urgh.

randalltrang:Illustrating Some of georgethecat's Top 100...

randalltrang:

Illustrating Some of georgethecat's Top 100 Hottest Dudes in Comics!
#12 Catman/Thomas Blake

The only bisexual man (that I know of) in mainstream superhero comics. Not exactly canon in the new DC Universe yet, but Gail Simone has said that the next time she gets to write him, it will be so.

Beside his sexuality, Thomas Blake is a weirdly typical comic book superhero character. Only in the world of comics is a handsome man with a beautiful blond mane and steel blue eyes (and of course, built like a tank) considered commonplace. Still - he is a sexy beast.

Also.

He's on a lion.

(By the way, y'know, there are straight dudes out there who like cats too…)

HA! It's the finger pointing that sells this! Awesome!

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nanigasy:

scans_daily | Birds of Prey #2 Against the White Canary!

If I were asked the two things I miss the most about the new 52, it would probably not be the obvious suspects. Yes, I miss the benched characters and Donna Troy and WW's origin and all of that stuff.

But personally, just me talking, the two things I miss the most are the Lois/Clark marriage, and the Birds of Prey being friends.

I miss that Huntress and Oracle and Canary and Zinda loved each other and always had each others' back, no matter what.  That Huntress would throw a drink in Shiva's face to protect Canary, that Canary would face Brainiac's electrocution to protect Oracle.  I think that their relationship was one of the most subversive messages in mainstream comics, in some ways.  And readers responded, the book was one of the most stable non-bat, non-gl books at DC the entire time I was on it. I think it was that friendship that people most treasured, and, I hasten to add, that helped make it the first truly successful all female team book in comics' history, to my knowledge.

I like the new 52, and I like the new BOP in particular, Duane's doing a lovely job on it, but it's not yet (for perfectly understandable reasons, and it may never be) a book about female friendship in the same way that it had been previously. Similarly, there are few female friendships at all at this early stage, and I dearly miss them.

Fortunately, there's room to grow, even if the cart moves slower than I would like.

That said, Bop really IS one of the best of the new books and is always worth reading!

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alexandraerin:

I love this bit of graffiti at a rest stop in Secret Six: Unhinged, because it's the sort of thing you would see in the U.S. in a world that was mostly equivalent to ours, but with the addition of Superman. 

I find theology in the DCU to be fascinating. I myself am an atheist, but it's very difficult to imagine what my belief system would be in a universe where the Spectre is the right hand of God and people have actually gone to Hell and returned.

Plus, the angels/demons/metahuman corollary is very rich and interesting.

I think you could still be an atheist, but your approach would have to explain the difference between metahuman powers and miracles.  I find it all very compelling, and I obviously go to that well pretty often. I have had people yelling at me for 'supporting' religious views that I don't hold, but that the characters do, which I always see as understandable, but a little bit of a sad statement on how we process fiction currently.

Archie Comics!

The issue where Kevin Keller marries an African American man has totally sold out nationwide, DESPITE a bigoted protest and letter writing campaign by the AFA stooge group ONE MILLION MOMS.

HUGE holler to the readers who bought this book and supported this message!

Katlynn's art house: I'm Doing It Again, Dangit.

Katlynn's art house: I'm Doing It Again, Dangit.:

gailsimone:

I know I said I don't do this often when the Villains United series was on sale at the DC download app, and comixology.com. And I don't.

But right now, both sites are having a "Hidden Gems" sale, and some of my stuff that is REALLY hard to find and expensive is on sale for 99…

HA!  Today is the last day!

Do you know if those comics will continue to be available on Comixology after today? Or will they be archived again? I've always kind of wondered why they don't make more issues of out of print stuff available, like in their GN release issue numbers. I alw

Generally, once a thing is properly up at the DC digital and comixology sites and available for download, it is pretty much always available. I haven't seen them rotate stuff out, to my knowledge.

The thing that is unique about today and tomorrow is the price…all the books I mentioned are on sale for 99 cents an issue right now. I suspect they will go back to $1.99 on Saturday, but will still be available. Hope that helps!

Do you know if those comics will continue to be available on Comixology after today? Or will they be archived again? I've always kind of wondered why they don't make more issues of out of print stuff available, like in their GN release issue numbers. I alw

Generally, once a thing is properly up at the DC digital and comixology sites and available for download, it is pretty much always available. I haven't seen them rotate stuff out, to my knowledge.

The thing that is unique about today and tomorrow is the price…all the books I mentioned are on sale for 99 cents an issue right now. I suspect they will go back to $1.99 on Saturday, but will still be available. Hope that helps!