Gail Simone's Blog, page 304

Isn't Midnighter basically Gay Batman? Or was that New 52ed away?

I like both characters, but aside from his relationship with Apollo, I mostly thought of Midnighter as a statement about Batman, rather than a direct simulacrum.

Gail, I recently written some stories for a novels and creative class in high school. Any way to get your opinion?

I am sorry, I can’t do that at all, most professional writers can’t, either. 

There are services, I think, that do this. But your best bet is probably a writing group. Many famous writers started there!  I wish you all the luck in the world!

Just for the sake of argument, if you had a Gay Batman, who would you pare him up with? (If the guy you pick is straight in the current Batman universe, lets just say he's Gay in this Gay Batman Universe)

I honestly like the civilian love interests, I feel like putting heroes together often leads to one character losing prestige to the other.

Oh wow, I did not know you were interested in the Legion! :o Who is your favorite character from it?

Seriously?

Infectious Lass. I wish I were kidding.

Can anyone here translate something into accurate old Latin for me?

Can anyone here translate something into accurate old Latin for me? 

Tell us more about these not straight Batman stories?

HA!

I knew I worded that badly! 

Dang it.

Dang it.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:wonderarity:Super Girlfriends →...

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

wonderarity:

Super Girlfriends → Barbara Gordon & Dinah Lance

These two NEEEEEEEED to be canon girlfriends together

NEED TO

What do you believe is your greatest feminist contribution to comics?

That’s interesting, I don’t really think in those terms much. I focus a lot more on stuff that still needs doing, and I tend to dwell a lot on stuff that didn’t go as I hoped. 

I think I have three answers to this, after giving it some thought. I think these are three things I can say I am proud of that relate to women and comics.

In terms  of my work, I am proud of taking a book that was about to be cancelled, BIRDS OF PREY, and making it into a long-term success by every possible standard. I didn’t start the book or conceive it, that was Chuck and Jordan. But I feel that we were able to take that ball that they passed so beautifully and run with it way further than anyone thought we could. It was a critical and commercial success, the trades sold forever, and it was two important things—the first ever all-female team book to be a long-running hit, and quite possibly one of the biggest gateway comics for females in a long, long time. I am very, very proud of that. And guys liked it and supported it, too, so it wasn’t exclusive of anyone. That makes me happy.

As a professional, the second thing is, I am proud of how many female readers and creators have come to the industry because of my work. I don’t want to overstate it, but they tell me this in large numbers at every con, that reading my work got them into comics, or inspired them to make their own. When a creator I respect says that, or a reader says that from the heart, it’s like a little skip of the heart every time. When someone hands me their comic and says they took the chance because I took the chance, that is a moment that is very hard to describe. 

And personally, I think the biggest thing is that I didn’t quit, that I didn’t give up. When I started, it was a different world, and even some of the pro-female creators currently were not so pro-female back then. Message boards were often brutally hostile, a lot of people really seemed to want to see me fail for reasons I will never understand. But almost all the female writers who debuted around the period where I did seem to have dropped out completely (I’m talking mainstream comics, not the indies, thank goodness). There were a lot of times early on where I did think of quitting…for a long time, I was everyone’s easy target, and it was very strange to read this stuff every day; the hate mail, the occasional threat, the deliberate twisting of even the most innocuous statements, it was extremely wearying. But I am still here, and I feel like I have grown enough wisdom to know that a lot of people say things that they don’t really mean, or that they say things they’ll regret later. A lot of people are hurting and they take it out on others. It doesn’t always mean what it sounds like.  In any case, I am proud that with the support of the readers and publishers and my friends and family, that I didn’t just quit and go back to doing hair. :)

That was a long answer. Sorry!

Exactly how naked will Catman get in future issues of Secret Six? Dare I think—even nakeder than before?!!

HA!

That will take some doing.

BUT CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!