Gail Simone's Blog, page 261

Hello, Gail Simone! I am wondering what the proper or preferred way of contact for you would be? Do you have representation? Do you grant interviews? Please let me know the best way to reach out!

You can just send an ask here with your contact info, but I do have to say I get way, way more requests for interviews than I can actually possibly do so please be aware of that. I will do my best!

How come the ladies in "Swords of Sorrow" are all barely dressed but posing as warriors? I don't know the comic though the cover made me wonder about the intentions.

MOST of the characters in Swords of Sorrow are actually much more dressed, like Masquerade, Miss Fury, Kato, Black Sparrow, and so on. But the three main characters in the first issue, Dejah (who comes from a planet where no one wears any clothes, regardless of gender), Vampirella and Red Sonja, their iconic costumes are all pretty damn skimpy.

I still think they’re badass characters. Red Sonja is my absolute fave. But it’s a fair point that they’re wearing basically bikinis. 

All I can say is they are characters I dearly love, we are trying to portray them as awesome as they can be, and trying to be very careful about the poses they are shown in. We had a couple covers go through in the early issues that were commissioned before I came aboard that I think did not represent the insides well, but since then, I think the covers have been among the best on the stands. 

And again, as for intentions, it’s a totally fair question, but my intention was to tell the best story I could with the coolest characters available and the most awesome team of all female writers I could find. Hopefully, that all shines through.

It’s a really fun book, it spans eras of pulp heroines from a hundred years ago to now, in many different media. But I admit that the three main characters, especially early on, are dressed a bit scantily. We’re working on it!  :)

Did Caminus and the other colony Metrotitans have the same reproductive powers of Vector Sigma and the Matrix in that they can create sparks, or did they just take hotspots ignited by Vector Sigma with them when they left Cybertron? If the latter were the

I am working off the assumption that the titans hotspots are pretty advanced and thus can create new sparks for a few reasons. 1. If the colonies had a finite population, it seems unlikely that they would have allowed their ties with Cybertron to degrade as they have (i.e. they would have fought a lot harder to restore contact with Cybertron than they seem to have). This also ties in to the history of some colonies that we’ll learn more about later, but the Camiens clearly thought they could sustain themselves on their own and I don’t think they would have if they knew they had a finite population. 2. A finite number of sparks would be vulnerable to disaster and disease. It would be more prudent to have a hotspot capable of generating new sparks instead of a set amount of sparks.

Did Caminus and the other colony Metrotitans have the same reproductive powers of Vector Sigma and the Matrix in that they can create sparks, or did they just take hotspots ignited by Vector Sigma with them when they left Cybertron? If the latter were the

I am working off the assumption that the titans hotspots are pretty advanced and thus can create new sparks for a few reasons. 1. If the colonies had a finite population, it seems unlikely that they would have allowed their ties with Cybertron to degrade as they have (i.e. they would have fought a lot harder to restore contact with Cybertron than they seem to have). This also ties in to the history of some colonies that we’ll learn more about later, but the Camiens clearly thought they could sustain themselves on their own and I don’t think they would have if they knew they had a finite population. 2. A finite number of sparks would be vulnerable to disaster and disease. It would be more prudent to have a hotspot capable of generating new sparks instead of a set amount of sparks.

Did Caminus and the other colony Metrotitans have the same reproductive powers of Vector Sigma and the Matrix in that they can create sparks, or did they just take hotspots ignited by Vector Sigma with them when they left Cybertron? If the latter were the

I am working off the assumption that the titans hotspots are pretty advanced and thus can create new sparks for a few reasons. 1. If the colonies had a finite population, it seems unlikely that they would have allowed their ties with Cybertron to degrade as they have (i.e. they would have fought a lot harder to restore contact with Cybertron than they seem to have). This also ties in to the history of some colonies that we’ll learn more about later, but the Camiens clearly thought they could sustain themselves on their own and I don’t think they would have if they knew they had a finite population. 2. A finite number of sparks would be vulnerable to disaster and disease. It would be more prudent to have a hotspot capable of generating new sparks instead of a set amount of sparks.

Did Caminus and the other colony Metrotitans have the same reproductive powers of Vector Sigma and the Matrix in that they can create sparks, or did they just take hotspots ignited by Vector Sigma with them when they left Cybertron? If the latter were the

I am working off the assumption that the titans hotspots are pretty advanced and thus can create new sparks for a few reasons. 1. If the colonies had a finite population, it seems unlikely that they would have allowed their ties with Cybertron to degrade as they have (i.e. they would have fought a lot harder to restore contact with Cybertron than they seem to have). This also ties in to the history of some colonies that we’ll learn more about later, but the Camiens clearly thought they could sustain themselves on their own and I don’t think they would have if they knew they had a finite population. 2. A finite number of sparks would be vulnerable to disaster and disease. It would be more prudent to have a hotspot capable of generating new sparks instead of a set amount of sparks.

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gailsimone:

I love this story!

You guys know I love tough pulp heroines, and I love cosplayers, and I love crossovers, and THIS IS PRETTY MUCH MY EVERYTHING.

So, these AMAZING cosplayers, 

Tabitha Lyons:  https://www.facebook.com/TabithaArtyfakes

Tasha McKenzie: https://www.facebook.com/TashaCosplayMackenzie

Miss Mojo Jones: https://www.facebook.com/nerdburlesque

Chiquita Cosplay: https://www.facebook.com/ChiquititaCosplay

all got together with photographer Andrew Dobell of http://www.creativeedgestudios.co.uk/

and they recreated the cover to Swords of Sorrow #1, as drawn by J. Scott Campbell.

I just find this amazing, the first time I saw it, it was just a thumbnail and I thought it must be a painting, had no idea if was a photo of actual cosplayers.

Then I got to look at it full size, and now I REALLy can’t believe it. The cosplayers, the costumes, everything just looks so freaking cool!

So I wrote Dynamite and said, “WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS AS A COVER!”

Fortunately, the wonderful people I named above were all excited to have it happen. 

It just makes me happy. It’s such a circle.

Red Sonja didn’t have a book for a while, so a BIG reason why people know her at all is because of cosplayers, notably Wendy Pini, who went on to create Elfquest, which changed independent comics forever.

Vampirella was one of the first celebrity cosplay guises. She’s aways been huge with cosplayers. 

So a lot of their continued popularity is partially because of cosplayers. 

And then the cover inspired a new set of cosplayers to recreate it, and their photo shoot inspired ME to add cool bits to the end of the series…!

I love that, I love the interactivity between the books and the readers, it just makes me ridiculously happy.

This cover is available as a retailer incentive, as your retailer if they will have it, it’s for issue three of Swords of Sorrow!

BOY I hope we can do one more of these before the series ends, I LOVE THESE AWESOME LADIES (and you too, Andrew!).

MOTHER OF FUCK THIS IS AMAZING

DUDE, I KNOW!

I would have LOVED for them to do a Sonja/Jungle Girl cover for your book!

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Character: Asgardian! Storm 

Series: X-Men 

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SUBMISSION

YES!!!!

WOW!

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Secret Six #3

Porcelain!

I love this story!You guys know I love tough pulp heroines, and...

I love this story!

You guys know I love tough pulp heroines, and I love cosplayers, and I love crossovers, and THIS IS PRETTY MUCH MY EVERYTHING.

So, these AMAZING cosplayers, 

Tabitha Lyons:  https://www.facebook.com/TabithaArtyfakes

Tasha McKenzie: https://www.facebook.com/TashaCosplayMackenzie

Miss Mojo Jones: https://www.facebook.com/nerdburlesque

Chiquita Cosplay: https://www.facebook.com/ChiquititaCosplay

all got together with photographer Andrew Dobell of http://www.creativeedgestudios.co.uk/

and they recreated the cover to Swords of Sorrow #1, as drawn by J. Scott Campbell.

I just find this amazing, the first time I saw it, it was just a thumbnail and I thought it must be a painting, had no idea if was a photo of actual cosplayers.

Then I got to look at it full size, and now I REALLy can’t believe it. The cosplayers, the costumes, everything just looks so freaking cool!

So I wrote Dynamite and said, “WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS AS A COVER!”

Fortunately, the wonderful people I named above were all excited to have it happen. 

It just makes me happy. It’s such a circle.

Red Sonja didn’t have a book for a while, so a BIG reason why people know her at all is because of cosplayers, notably Wendy Pini, who went on to create Elfquest, which changed independent comics forever.

Vampirella was one of the first celebrity cosplay guises. She’s aways been huge with cosplayers. 

So a lot of their continued popularity is partially because of cosplayers. 

And then the cover inspired a new set of cosplayers to recreate it, and their photo shoot inspired ME to add cool bits to the end of the series…!

I love that, I love the interactivity between the books and the readers, it just makes me ridiculously happy.

This cover is available as a retailer incentive, as your retailer if they will have it, it’s for issue three of Swords of Sorrow!

BOY I hope we can do one more of these before the series ends, I LOVE THESE AWESOME LADIES (and you too, Andrew!).