Gail Simone's Blog, page 1115
December 14, 2011
secretsix:
13 Secret Six by...
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Oh.
This makes me sad and happy at the same time. Adorable.
Dear Forbes Magazine...
I hate you so much right now.
APE IN A CAPE: bevismusson: You know what the best thing about Batgirl #4 is? Aside...
You know what the best thing about Batgirl #4 is? Aside from the great story, the utterly gorgeous art and starring a vunerable but kick-arse female character? It's the Batman App.
Seriously, I can't believe no-one has thought of this before.It totally makes sense that the…
It has to be said it's little moments and ideas like that which make comics so much fun. It's like the bit in JLA: Year One where Flash is criticising Canary for wearing heeled boots and how impractical they are and she twists his mask round so he can't see and walks off without saying a word. Like the app, it's one of those things that makes you go 'now why didn't anyone else think of that before?'.
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I might actually have written the gag you are referring to in JLA: Year One, weirdly enough. I'm not positive, but I think I may have!
Well, in here they credit mostly Mark Waid and Barry Kitson on the series, and when I searched for the series, on the DC Comics site listed them and "others"-which logically means, and I can only assume that, here, that various other writers contributed to the series. ;)
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Mark Waid absolutely wrote the entire book, the entire JLA: Year One. Me saying I 'wrote' any of it is not precise at all, that's my fault.
Mark was a very good friend at the time, an email pal, and I hadn't yet gone pro. Mark was writing JLA: Year One and Black Canary was the only character he didn't feel he really knew inside and out. So I wrote up some notes for why I liked her so much, with a couple possible character beats, both of which he used. I THINK that was one of them…another was her being upset about something to do with blonde hair. I honestly don't remember.
But it's not cowritten or anything like that, Mark absolutely wrote the book on his own with his usual genius. I just sent some fannish notes about Black Canary, some of which he used, to my eternal glee.
APE IN A CAPE: bevismusson: You know what the best thing about Batgirl #4 is? Aside...
You know what the best thing about Batgirl #4 is? Aside from the great story, the utterly gorgeous art and starring a vunerable but kick-arse female character? It's the Batman App.
Seriously, I can't believe no-one has thought of this before.It totally makes sense that the…
It has to be said it's little moments and ideas like that which make comics so much fun. It's like the bit in JLA: Year One where Flash is criticising Canary for wearing heeled boots and how impractical they are and she twists his mask round so he can't see and walks off without saying a word. Like the app, it's one of those things that makes you go 'now why didn't anyone else think of that before?'.
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I might actually have written the gag you are referring to in JLA: Year One, weirdly enough. I'm not positive, but I think I may have!
bevismusson:
You know what the best thing about Batgirl #4 is? Aside from the great story, the...
You know what the best thing about Batgirl #4 is? Aside from the great story, the utterly gorgeous art and starring a vunerable but kick-arse female character? It's the Batman App.
Seriously, I can't believe no-one has thought of this before.It totally makes sense that the criminals would make use of smart phone tech like that. It's a brilliant piece of extrapolation of real world elements in a superhero universe. Credit to Gail for thinking that one up.
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Heh.
Thank you, mister. That means a lot coming from such a talented creator of comics.
December 13, 2011
Can't I Just Have The Anus Bar?: Scandal Savage
Best friend EVER
I love how that even though these two aren't a couple anymore they still care about each other so very much and are still such good friends. It's adorable
And this scene is so sweet and so heartbreaking. I just want to reach into the…
I don't think you are wrong at all. The Secret Six are some of the few comic book characters that I have genuinely cared about like they were real people, who I have felt were important to me, because they were written like real people. People who were flawed, and imperfect and occasionally made absolutely horrible choices but who in the end, you couldn't help but admire and even love
They were anti heroes in an interesting way, people who didn't fit into the black and white world of superhero or supervillain.
And yep, I would definitely say that I loved the Six as much as Kate Kane and Steph. They were characters that I felt a genuine connection to and I still miss the Six :(
I OWN THAT PAGE! I OWN THAT PAGE! LA LA LA I OWN THAT PAGE!
::ahem::
But yes. I pretty much lost my interest in reading comics now that S6 is gone (even if only temporarily as I hope). Nothing touches me the way these characters do, no other book I've seen is as layered and emotionally complex. It's everything I think comics SHOULD be but so rarely are.
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First, HOW DO YOU OWN ALL THE GREATEST PAGES?
Second, I'm sorry you feel that way…there are some very good books out there, still. I am loving the work of Lemire and Snyder and Batwoman is also excellent. I think Wonder Woman is doing something special!
BECAUSE I AM QUICK AND GREEDY!
But yeah. I'll find my way back eventually, I just need a mourning period. There are titles I want to read for sure but when I think about going to the LCS I just…can't. Hurts too much and I need a break from the disappointment, I think.
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Well, let me know when your birthday is and I'll write you a little teeny Six story.
Has any LGBTQ character that you have written, impacted you, as a writer, a female, and as a person writing out their experience? Is it hard to write LGBTQ characters, yourself? Do some folks have a better grasp at it because they experienced it, firsthand
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Anything I say here is probably going to sound like a copout, but I learn things from almost all the characters I write. If you can't wear those hats, you probably shouldn't be a writer.
As for lgbtq characters, I am not sure how to express that. When I think of them, I don't think of a cold list of characters with a particular grouping, I think of the individual characters, and how much I adore them. I think of brave and distant Rainmaker, bold and brassy Jeannette, lonely yet hopeful Achilles, loving and fierce Scandal, you know, on and on.
They are characters first to me, they affect me every time I write them. And they may have a special place in my heart because I know they mean so much to some people.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if lgbtq people wrote lgbtq characters better, I don't really know, but that sounds perfectly plausible and logical. Devin is openly bi and I was tremendously excited for her to write a gay female character, but on the other hand, it seems hard to complain when the alternative was Greg Rucka and JH Williams doing one of the best books DC has ever published.
I think more lgbtq writers and artists would be lovely, it's necessary.
I don't have great answers for any of these questions, I notice. Sorry!
Has any LGBTQ character that you have written, impacted you, as a writer, a female, and as a person writing out their experience? Is it hard to write LGBTQ characters, yourself? Do some folks have a better grasp at it because they experienced it, firsthand
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Anything I say here is probably going to sound like a copout, but I learn things from almost all the characters I write. If you can't wear those hats, you probably shouldn't be a writer.
As for lgbtq characters, I am not sure how to express that. When I think of them, I don't think of a cold list of characters with a particular grouping, I think of the individual characters, and how much I adore them. I think of brave and distant Rainmaker, bold and brassy Jeannette, lonely yet hopeful Achilles, loving and fierce Scandal, you know, on and on.
They are characters first to me, they affect me every time I write them. And they may have a special place in my heart because I know they mean so much to some people.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if lgbtq people wrote lgbtq characters better, I don't really know, but that sounds perfectly plausible and logical. Devin is openly bi and I was tremendously excited for her to write a gay female character, but on the other hand, it seems hard to complain when the alternative was Greg Rucka and JH Williams doing one of the best books DC has ever published.
I think more lgbtq writers and artists would be lovely, it's necessary.
I don't have great answers for any of these questions, I notice. Sorry!
Has any LGBTQ character that you have written, impacted you, as a writer, a female, and as a person writing out their experience? Is it hard to write LGBTQ characters, yourself? Do some folks have a better grasp at it because they experienced it, firsthand
*******************
Anything I say here is probably going to sound like a copout, but I learn things from almost all the characters I write. If you can't wear those hats, you probably shouldn't be a writer.
As for lgbtq characters, I am not sure how to express that. When I think of them, I don't think of a cold list of characters with a particular grouping, I think of the individual characters, and how much I adore them. I think of brave and distant Rainmaker, bold and brassy Jeannette, lonely yet hopeful Achilles, loving and fierce Scandal, you know, on and on.
They are characters first to me, they affect me every time I write them. And they may have a special place in my heart because I know they mean so much to some people.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if lgbtq people wrote lgbtq characters better, I don't really know, but that sounds perfectly plausible and logical. Devin is openly bi and I was tremendously excited for her to write a gay female character, but on the other hand, it seems hard to complain when the alternative was Greg Rucka and JH Williams doing one of the best books DC has ever published.
I think more lgbtq writers and artists would be lovely, it's necessary.
I don't have great answers for any of these questions, I notice. Sorry!
Has any LGBTQ character that you have written, impacted you, as a writer, a female, and as a person writing out their experience? Is it hard to write LGBTQ characters, yourself? Do some folks have a better grasp at it because they experienced it, firsthand
*******************
Anything I say here is probably going to sound like a copout, but I learn things from almost all the characters I write. If you can't wear those hats, you probably shouldn't be a writer.
As for lgbtq characters, I am not sure how to express that. When I think of them, I don't think of a cold list of characters with a particular grouping, I think of the individual characters, and how much I adore them. I think of brave and distant Rainmaker, bold and brassy Jeannette, lonely yet hopeful Achilles, loving and fierce Scandal, you know, on and on.
They are characters first to me, they affect me every time I write them. And they may have a special place in my heart because I know they mean so much to some people.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if lgbtq people wrote lgbtq characters better, I don't really know, but that sounds perfectly plausible and logical. Devin is openly bi and I was tremendously excited for her to write a gay female character, but on the other hand, it seems hard to complain when the alternative was Greg Rucka and JH Williams doing one of the best books DC has ever published.
I think more lgbtq writers and artists would be lovely, it's necessary.
I don't have great answers for any of these questions, I notice. Sorry!
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