Gail Simone's Blog, page 196

Is King Shark now the king of CW TV, after his cameo on Flash?

He’s going to be King of all media someday.

Why do comics keep falling back on the lazy 'the pagan gods are powered by faith and nobody believes in them anymore making them weak' trope? Not only is it a pretty lazy explanation for things, it pretends that paganism is not a modern day thing. But it a

I don’t know. But it’s a pretty boring trope at this point.

If King Shark is a King, does he have a Kingdom?

No.  Yes.

Wait.

SHUT UP.

KING SHARK IS A SHARK!

Just out of curiosity, as you seem to be an expert in Shazam type stuff, what makes Mary Marvel unique as opposed to her fellow Shazam counterparts Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr?

She’s a girl.

sorcerersskull:Art by Jenny Frison

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Art by Jenny Frison

Secret Six #7

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This is puppetist. Ferdie shouldn’t be the symbol for The Ventriloquist. He should get his own symbol. Which would be a dildo.



I mentioned that I really liked the first episode of Supergirl and somebody replied with “I had some problems with the S - the ‘what’s wrong with being a girl’ bit from her boss particularly, was absolutely horrible reasoning and completely missing the point - I don’t mind that she’s Supergirl and not Superwoman, but it was handled terribly.” At what point did people stop believing that characters in shows, films, and written works could have unreasonable opinions? Can’t an argument made by a character completely miss the point without it being seen as a flaw in the writing? Kara has an opinion about the name she wants to choose for her new persona. She doesn’t like Supergirl and objects to it. Cat Grant has already been made out to be a horribly selfish person only concerned with her business and naming the new superhero reflects that. Her arguments for the name barely matter in this scene. Maybe some see it as the defense in the show for using girl instead of woman. But I saw that scene as an unreasonable human being choosing to fire somebody rather than be criticized. In a world of trending hashtags (ugh. What a shit world!), being the source of that hashtag proffers huge cultural capital. It’s in Cat’s best interest to defend the new name as vehemently as she can. I imagine Cat will wind up being more and more likeable as the show progresses but for now she’s a fairly shallowly defined trope of the horrible boss (Lady Edition).

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Tess’s reviews are some of the funniest things on the net, every time. 

I wish I could convince them that they should be doing this for a website or a magazine or something. This is top-notch stuff!

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Gail, I was wondering, does King Shark have a crown?

He’s a shark.

fpicomics:Clean Room #1 Review by Chris McCallion The...

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Clean Room #1 Review by Chris McCallion

The opening to writer Gail Simone’s Vertigo series debut sets the tone for what’s to come and it’s equal parts compelling, intriguing and creepy. The events that transpire in the introduction are left hanging while the story moves onto a different scene entirely while still maintaining the eerie atmosphere. Here, main protagonist Chloe is introduced at a low point in her life as she struggles to come to grips with her fiancés suicide and why it happened so suddenly under curious circumstances. However, Chloe has a few ideas of what might be going on and the book moves forward as she continues to investigate. Chloe is a wonderfully flawed character who is introduced at her worst but is shown to be incredibly driven to discover what demons plagued her fiancé while trying to keep her own at bay. The art and colour on display, both provided by Jon Davis-Hunt, does an excellent job of bringing the characters to  life and manages to bring true emotions to the characters on each page. This is especially true of the previously mentioned creepy scenes, made even more so by the choice of using quite a vibrant colour palate which seems at odds with the subject matter but only results in enhancing it. This is an excellent opening chapter with solid art and enough story and development present to get hooked into this mysterious and twisted new series.

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Thank you, Chris! We are so glad you liked it. :)

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I’ve got a brief piece up over at Sourcerer reviewing a couple of new comic books you might have missed last week.  It’s Wednesday!  Go grab ’em!

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Thank you for the very kind CLEAN ROOM review (and I am going to try KARNAK because of your review as well!).