Gail Simone's Blog, page 1078
February 9, 2012
gothambeat:
Okay, I don't want to start shit by posting these...
Okay, I don't want to start shit by posting these scans.
Because I used to love Babs!
But this is still really funny.
And I know I'm going to get shit for posting it but screw it.
Wow, what issue is this from, anyone know?
It's funny, but it's also true. I don't think Barbara before OR after the Killing Joke could ever go toe to toe with Cass.
I like to think she might get a little better each time they face off, but Cass is always going to be the superior fighter.
February 8, 2012
I Might Be Watching A Horrible Movie
…called Darkening Sky.
It is about UFO abductions and good LORD it is tedious!
Eggplant Wonder!: gailsimone: Where's The Beef?: I Liked Batgirl #6. There, I Said...
Where's The Beef?: I Liked Batgirl #6. There, I Said It
Yes, that one line isn't doing anybody any favors and I hate it just as much as the rest of you. But to write off an entire issue, an entire series, based on a single sentence that Bruce probably only…
This is in response to the very fair and reasoned "mini-rant."
I have zero objections to people looking for context, that's quite nice actually. But this line does not make Steph or Cass not be Batgirl. I'm pretty sure at least one of them HAS been Batgirl.
My point, and it's not really criticism, is specifically to the people who felt that Bruce speaking to Barbara is supposed to actually be DC or me speaking directly to the reader.
Which it really isn't.
Once you put the words on paper, they are really no longer yours to interpret. I just am having a kind of growing aversion to the overuse of meta-commentary in genre fiction. I think it's getting a little bit arch, you know?
And I agree, the timeline is confising.
Blah! Bad Dialogue! BAD!
Bad dialogue is my pet peeve…I can take almost anything if the dialogue is crisp.
I am reading a book my sister suggested. It's about shoe-aholics.
And this line is in it.
"When the shoe fits, you find Prince Charming."
YIKES.
Where's The Beef?: I Liked Batgirl #6. There, I Said It
Yes, that one line isn't doing anybody any favors and I hate it just as much as the rest of you. But to write off an entire issue, an entire series, based on a single sentence that Bruce probably only told Barbara because he felt she needed to hear it? That says more about your own feelings than…
I'm glad you liked it…but I think people are seeing meta commentary where there is none. It's not me or DC speaking to the audience, it's Bruce, speaking to Barbara, the way I always like to write him, with love to someone he thinks of as a daughter.
Truthfully, I think meta-commentary in fiction is getting really trite and tedious…I feel like they are always trying to pander to me. It's frustrating…and I'm kind of glad to be slowly moving away from it, if that makes sense.
Also, this doesn't mean Cass or Steph couldn't be or have been Batgirl, that never even crossed our minds. It's just that Barbara is the first…then she had a hiatus. What happened to the name during that time is still open.
But I am glad you enjoyed it!
what-thecomics:
Batgirl #6
Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: Gail...
Batgirl #6
Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: Gail Simone
Artist: Ardian Syaf
Man, I love that cover.
APE IN A CAPE: Gail Simone
Like pretty much all white American writers, I have definitely screwed up and gotten stuff wrong in the past. But it does bug me hugely that so many groups of readers have little or no representation in comics. I am hoping to be part of a much bigger wave that doesn't want to automatically default to straight, white, and male for every key character. I only do a couple books, I want to see ALL of us trying to do much, much better at this.
As for Singapore, oh, man, I have to tell you. I can't quite explain it without feeling foolish, but I cherish Singapore in my heart and will, forever. The reception I received there, the friends I made, the things we saw and experienced, there's no place like it in the world, and I miss it terribly. I can't wait to go back (AND I had the two best meals of my life there…you guys have the best food culture in the WORLD and I will stand by that til my dying day!).
…
I remember a lot of people very upset there about what had happened with Ryan Choi and I didn't really have a good answer about that, but it did make me determined to try to bring some more characters of Asian descent who aren't martial artists (Tumblr and some other bloggers had pointed out how many Asians I had created that were all martial artists, and how that was a poor stab at diversity, and they were dead right) to comics.
I hope you continue to like Alysia. She is based absolutely on some Sinaporean young women I met while there, and they have been delighted to be represented, which makes me happy.
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I love those two so much, Alysia is named after them both. Alysia Yeoh, with Alysia's first name and Anthony's last name.
Singapore haunts you once you go there, I swear!
Thank you, thank you for this.
(also, here's link to Cocotte's!)
Yay! Yes, that's them, Anthony and Alysia!
Just seeing 'em makes me miss Singapore SOOOOO BAAAAAD.
"A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys..."
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Study: African-American Boys Receive Less Attention, Harsher Punishment And Lower Grades In School | News One (via omchomsky)
But racism don't exist tho….
(via sourcedumal)
with a grin as wide as the truth: gailsimone: yada yada yada and tomorrow it'll end: This is why I don't...
How do you get pedicure from manicure? Please…
My parents own their own salon, so I know intimately of the hardships that nail stylists face. (Seriously, some customers really need to spend more money on therapy rather than their nails.)
My parents did not leave Vietnam just to find a better life; they left to escape a war.
My own mother witnessed a childhood friend being shot and killed when she was only five years old.
Her family (who were peasants from a fishing village) became even poorer after a boat capsized and took the sack holding whatever money they had with it.
When she first came to America, she was so poor that she lived in a project for a while. She was the poorest out of all of her friends. Her family was so poor that even a box of cereal was considered a luxury.
She had a job since she was seven-years-old, her first as an interpreter for a hospital.
Going to school in Louisiana was difficult for her, even when she had quickly learned to "speak American". Some boys, hateful of the new Vietnamese foreigners, threw rocks at them. One struck my mother in the head, which gave her a cut so deep that she still has the scar on her face, even at fourty-five years old.
These are only some of the hardships she had faced, but she had managed to work her way out of destitution and can now provide a better life for me. Currently, she works seven days a week, ten hours a day. She only has four days off in the entire year, which she spends with me.
Dealing with foreigners still trying to learn English can be difficult sometimes, but people really need to be more patient. If a person knew everything about the person whom they considered wronging, maybe they would think twice before just striking out in hatred.
Reblogging for truth.
vbartilucci:
I told you I'd done another member of the Secret...
I told you I'd done another member of the Secret Six. Here's Deadshot, made for DC sub-poobah Ian Sattler.
If Ian Sattler ends up in a ditch somewhere, minus one amazing Deadshot bear, NO JURY CAN CONVICT ME.
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