Gail Simone's Blog, page 169
February 25, 2016
Hi! I'm confused about C2E2. You're listed as presenting at a panel but not under the guests. What does that mean for people like my friends and me who would want to see you?
I am a guest, there was a mix-up and a panel had me listed before it was officially announced.
I will be at C2E@ and would love to meet you!
February 24, 2016
Hey Gail! I was just wondering, have you ever watched Batman Beyond? Just curious what thoughts you might have about it!
I haven’t. I heard it was great, though!
I just don’t watch much television. It’s not snobbery, I just don’t seem to do it that much. When I’m in front of the tv, I’m watching movies or playing games.
Munira Khairuddin Watak Superhero Malaysia dalam DC Comics - MAGICALIPS
There’s a Malaysian character in the new Batgirl!
Translation of the article:
Believe it or not, there is a character in DC Comics named Munira Khairuddin, a character who is a Malaysian woman, befitting her name. Fans of the superheroes of DC Comics may already know about Munira Khairuddin, who goes by the codename Obscura in Batgirl. Obscura or Muni’s first appearance will be in Batgirl #32.
This female character was created by Gail Simon & Fernando Pasari. Munira Khairuddin is a US government agent born in Malaysia who was originally a student at Gotham University. She was the roommate and close friend of Barbara Gordon, who was close friends with Robin.
At the age of 18, Munira was recruited to the elite counter-terrorism squad & worked in the espionage department of the Spy Smashers division. Because of this, Spy Smasher falsified the death of Munira. Munira returned to Gotham City because her agency wanted to halt the plans of Knightfall (the villain/antagonist) to unleash terror in Gotham City.
After I tried to find pictures of this character, it was clear that there weren’t that many pictures yet of Munira Khairuddin or Obscura from DC Comics. If there were, it was just of similar characters such as Black Widow (Marvel) who’s from Russia. I haven’t yet had the chance to follow the Batgirl comics because I’m currently busy reading The Flash.
What this article doesn’t mention is that @jhameia was consulted on making Munira a believable Malaysian character, and that she was based on a real-life Malaysian scholar researching terrorism in South-East Asia.
Obscura is not forgotten! I think she may be a regular in a different book soon!
sapphoshands:
…I think Clean Room 5 may be the first time I’ve...
…I think Clean Room 5 may be the first time I’ve ever seen a female comic book character with pit hair. This makes me very, very happy. Rock on, @gailsimone and Jon Davis-Hunt.
(to be fair: if I were caught up on Bitch Planet I bet there’d be some in there. But until then…!)
Capone got a WAVE of fan mail and she only really appeared a week ago.
GO, CAPONE!
Ranty over-serious ramble about the ‘Deadpool is Straight’ stuff
Like, I do love the “FAKE GEEK GUYS” pushback over all the cries from dudes that “Deadpool is Heterosexual”, as someone who has to put up with the ‘fake geek girl’ crap at times, but something I can’t help but think about when I see the complaints and then I see the scans of Deadpool being y’know, not straight:
It’s probably not a case of these guys having not read those issues before or seen the scanned panels before. And maybe someone who’s had the money to read more of the comics than I have (This is a big disclaimer: I haven’t collected any comics at all in a decade other than getting random trades when friends highly recc’d them and I had money, though yeah I loved Deadpool from the first appearance of that dumbass in a title I read, I have most of the Gail SImone run, etc) will know of some story line where Wade really does have definite sex with a male-presenting other character, rather than the stuff shown, but from the issues I’m familiar with-
What these guys take away when they see those scans, if not , it fits with their worldview of Wade being straight, because it’s just y’know, wacky jokey weaponized “homosexuality”.
Basically to them it’s just y’know, Bugs Bunny kissing Elmer Fudd to make him cringe, it’s him just making the other guy uncomfortable.
It’s them bullying some other guy in the locker room of toxic masculinity, thinking it’s HILARIOUS to ‘act queer’ and start shit/start fights that way and use it as an insult.
And that makes me uncomfortable as fuck about just dismissing it for humor/payback, without acknowledging that it’s actually past ‘fake geek boy’ and a good damn warning sign about the people who do read the comics and still want to stick to their belief that it can’t be anything but Wade’s patter, his wackiness, his wanting to make people uncomfortable or ‘just being random’.
And also maybe a sign and warning to people who write comics, and write characters in any media really, about needing to do more to make shit plain and clear, and how much we need the real pansexual Wade Wilson or other characters, and what to be wary of writing in terms of “hahahaha he said Thor was attractive what a goofball” stuff if they really want to give us diverse characters.
It can’t all be one-offs and sudden kisses or requests for them and unrequited crushes.
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There are about 60 hours left in the Kickstarter, so there’s still time to get one comic, the other, or both! And since we’ve UTTERLY VANQUISHED our stretch goals, not only are reprints of the out-of-print Smut Peddler 2012 on offer, but every dime over goal from now on goes towards paying our artists better!
Please take a look if you can! And thank you for everything you folks have done to support the project already! Keep backing and reblogging, the finish line is in sight! :D
Hi! I was thinking about your reply re: big hero books you wouldn't want to write. You said you find Iron Man dull but have an idea for him now. As a big time IM fan, that kind of talk makes me slightly nervous lol. Do you think it's better when writers wr
There is a feeling at the big two that if writers LOVE a character, they are too reverential.
But I have warmed up to Iron Man quite a lot!
February 19, 2016
February 17, 2016
What type of shark is King Shark?
French Poodle Shark.
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