Gail Simone's Blog, page 1099
January 15, 2012
cursethecosmos:
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invisiblelad:
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comicbo...
Secret Six v3 #8
Hahaha, I got a bunch of scornful tweets and fb comments about this. :) But the "right on!" posts outnumbered them about fifty to one.Scandal Savage far and away is one of the most badass characters in the past decade of comic books. Period. The fact that she's a deeply damaged, sympathetic layered character beyond her sexual orientation just makes her even more so.
What on earth did the detractors have to say? (Secret Six was hardly a book for children)
I hesitate to even repeat it, you know the drill. Too much "gay stuff," blah blah blah. Several people wrote and said they could, "no longer support the book," often because of their religious beliefs. Fair enough, I would respond, that's your problem, …but you're okay with the cannibalism and necrophilia? A book where two characters have dinner on decomposed flesh is fine, but HOLY SHIT DON'T LET TWO WOMEN KISS. ;)
Where would this medium be without Gail Simone?!
I don't want to imply that it was some big deal, I just found it kind of funny.
The interesting thing about Secret Six, and I stress this is just an unintended by-product, but I had a LOT of conservative and religious people say that they really came to root for Scandal's love life when they hadn't expected to…one guy did a whole podcast about how she had made him rethink his positions on gay and polyamorous relationships.
It wasn't ever the goal or the point, but I thought that was a nice side-effect, that she made people rethink some prejudices. Fiction is power, I swear.
I want to be able to do that with a gay male hero sometime this year. Be nice to have that in more dc books.
invisiblelad:
gailsimone:
comicbookkissyface:
Secret Six v3...
Secret Six v3 #8
Hahaha, I got a bunch of scornful tweets and fb comments about this. :) But the "right on!" posts outnumbered them about fifty to one.
Scandal Savage far and away is one of the most badass characters in the past decade of comic books. Period. The fact that she's a deeply damaged, sympathetic layered character beyond her sexual orientation just makes her even more so.
What on earth did the detractors have to say? (Secret Six was hardly a book for children)
I hesitate to even repeat it, you know the drill. Too much "gay stuff," blah blah blah. Several people wrote and said they could, "no longer support the book," often because of their religious beliefs.
Fair enough, I would respond, that's your problem, …but you're okay with the cannibalism and necrophilia?
A book where two characters have dinner on decomposed flesh is fine, but HOLY SHIT DON'T LET TWO WOMEN KISS.
;)
comicbookkissyface:
Secret Six v3 #8
Hahaha, I got a bunch...
Secret Six v3 #8
Hahaha, I got a bunch of scornful tweets and fb comments about this. :)
But the "right on!" posts outnumbered them about fifty to one.
fyeahbatgirl:
from Batgirl #5
My question is…knowing...
from Batgirl #5
My question is…knowing ONLY what we have seen so far in the new Batgirl issues, that Barbara's mom abandoned her at age 12…should Barbara tryto forgive her, or not?
dangerous-ladies:
My friend Christina (not to be confused with...
My friend Christina (not to be confused with our own Christine) apparently showed Gail Simone pictures of me as Supergirl on her iPad at a convention last year — and she got this for me! Merry Christmas to me, indeed.
This is gettin' FRAMED. \o/
Aw, you are an amazing cosplayer!
January 13, 2012
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I don't know if that's good or bad!
charmingpplincardigans:
fuckyeahbatfamily:
Amy Pond with the...
Amy Pond with the Gotham gingers: Babs, Batwoman, etc.
Haha. Babs' face and Kate's little 'right here!' finger. I love it.
ALL MY THINGS I LOVE ARE AT THE PARTY.
Some recent articles talking about the cancelled comics makes me want the opinion of someone who works within the whole industry. What exactly happens when someone's book is cancelled? Do the creative teams go back to the drawing board, so to speak, or are
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Well, I think there might be a little misunderstanding here. Writing a comic isn't quite like having a standard day job. The relationship is very fluid, and we all work under the knowledge that we can be removed from a book or have the book canceled at any time (assuming it's work for hire, or course, and not creator-owned).
There are basically two answers to this.
One is the typical freelancer's situation. This generally means you are given assignments, sometimes open-ended on continuing series, sometimes not. If a book is canceled, you are done with that book, usually. If you are well-regarded and the company feels you are better used elsewhere, they may ask if you want to work on this other title, and you can say yes, or no.
Or, they will let you know they like your work, and would like you to pitch for either a new title, or an existing one. I try never to step on another writer's toes…if a writer is working on a book and wants to stay, I won't pitch for it. Pitching is by no means a guarantee of new work. And quite often, if your book failed, you may not have more work assigned for some time and have to go look elsewhere.
If you are an exclusive creator, meaning you have a contract with one of the majors, they usually have a certain number of pages you have to write as a minimum each month, which also benefits the writer because they know they have at least that much work and income. Under those circumstances, if a book is cancelled, they will try to get you another assignment pretty quickly.
So, it's different for every situation. Hope that helps.
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