Gail Simone's Blog, page 119
July 13, 2016
Have you been writing any comics lately? You seemed to have dropped off of my on going list with the end of Red Sonja.
Huh.
Well, I’m actually writing more than ever, but some stuff isn’t coming out for a few months. BUT I am writing SURVIVING MEGALOPOLIS and CLEAN ROOM every month. Soon, CROSSWIND and WONDERFALL will also be coming, and I have a ton of special projects that haven’t yet been announced.
I wanted to try some new things. :)
What are your thoughts on this new iron man Riri Williams and the predictable backlash from fans ?
I honestly have not been keeping up so I don’t know the exact complaints.
I really miss The Movement.
Me, too. :(
It’d be worth doing another superhero book just to have them show up. :)
Is it true that Image Comics has put your title Crosswinds on hiatus while the book has to search for a new artist because you and Cat Staggs had "creative differences" so she left the project
Oh, Jesus, no. Where does this stuff come from?
First, Cat Staggs is THE Crosswind artist. There is no one else. She is turning in amazing pages, unlike anything she’s ever done.
Second, there’s no ‘creative differences.’ I am absolutely in love with Cat, I adore her, I adore her work, she is not just the artist, we are co-creators and she is co-owner. We have never had one word of disagreement creatively, not a single one.
We announced a little too early and both of us got hit with personal things that took up a little time. But we’ve caught up and the pages are coming out gorgeous. It’s taken a little extra time, but it’s absolutely worth it. And Image has been wonderful. We all wanted it to come out a little sooner, and I apologize to everyone for that.
But Cat is the JAM, and I would never want to step on her toes creatively. She draws like a bandit and I’m wild about her, and about this book. It’s incredibly dear to my heart. It’s still coming, there will be an announcement very soon.
People say weird stuff. I can’t remember the last time I had genuine ‘creative differences’ with an artist, it’s been years and years, and with Cat, there is total trust and awe at what she does. I wanted to work with her for years and I’m lucky it’s happening. :)
I LOVE YOU CAT STAGGS!
Is there ever situations when an editor (think they'd be the person) tells you "You need to use X character" because they're trying to increase their profile or do you get more freedom than that?
I have a reputation for being able to ‘rehabilitate’ characters that have fallen into disuse, a bit. Characters like Black Canary, Huntress, Barda, Lady Blackhawk, Red Sonja and more, the perception is that I was able to reconstruct them a little so that people were paying attention to them again.
This is a nice thing, and it’s flattering that editors want me to work on certain characters so that they can see the sun a little more. Since I tend to like these b- and c-list characters, I’m happy to do it.
So it became very common for DC in particular, but also other companies, to ask me to feature a certain character, so that they might be restored somewhat. It’s happened a lot, it’s gone from a simple suggestion to part of significant publishing initiatives, depending on the character. If I loathe a character, I’m sure I could say no, but I generally like those characters.
Of the top of my head, I’ve been asked to do some rehab on Bane, Elongated Man, Big Barda, and the names I mentioned above. As well as the Dynamite females, which was a more formal arrangement.
All writers have different things they’re good at, along with weaknesses. I’m kind of proud of the fact that publishers feel I have a talent for bringing out the best in characters, to make people like them again. That makes me happy.
The other side is, it can be labor and thought intensive. After doing the huge SWORDS OF SORROW thing, where we were trying to present a dozen characters to a new audience, I was offered a relaunch of a major female pulp/comic/movie adventure heroine, but she’d need to be rethought almost from the ground up, and I had character-rehab-fatigue at that moment and turned it down. I honestly felt at that moment like, let someone else do this this time. ;)
But I think it is an actual thing, something I can point to in my career and be proud of, that a lot of people first fell in love with these characters because of how I wrote them. That makes me happy.
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