Gail Simone's Blog, page 379

I noticed the guy in Red Sonja has a gap in his teeth. Was he inspired by Paul Scheer, like how one member of the Movement is Kulap?

Yes, some of my favorite comedian/podcasters are in that issue, with their kind permission; Howard Kremer, Kulap, Scott Aukerman, and the great Paul Scheer, who was okay with getting a chicken stuck in his eye.

so because they wouldn't they let you use Cass, is it safe to assume they finally have a plan for her? Or are they just indefinitely saving her for when they think the time is right/get the right pitch from a writer/editor?

I don’t know, I hope it’s the first thing.

Thanks for the Cass reply. I should have had more faith in you. I just thought that with the kind of book Secret Six has been, that aspect of the character would be the one likely to be chosen. Sorry if I offended you.

Not offended at all, it’s a perfectly fair question.

This Six has a different mix…people are going to be surprised. :)

Question about Batgirl; what did Bruce mean during your Gretel arc when he whispered "You were always meant to be Batgirl" to Barbara? I've been curious for awhile.

This was MEANT to be the end result of the thread that Barbara was unsure about her position as Batgirl. She was going back to an identity she thought she had abandoned and her self-doubt and other destructive mental processes left her feeling she wasn’t sure if she had ‘earned’ that right.

Batman and Nightwing had both shown concern about her jumping back in, OUT OF LOVE, but she, in her tormented state, took that as thinking they didn’t believe she was capable of coming back yet.

So when she finally was tested against a mind-controlled Bruce, he let her know, with no nonsense…Yes. You were MEANT to be Batgirl.

It was a very clear story through-line, it’s in practically every one of the early issues. HOWEVER.

A lot of Cass and Steph fans took it as meta-commentary. At the time, I thought that was just really overreacting.  But since I am not above meta-commentary, in retrospect, I see where they could come up with that impression. My response is, in this reality, Steph and Cass had not been named as Batgirls, as much as I wished they had. So remove that meta thing and you can see what it was…Batman being the closest thing to a dad he can be.

I hate Batman-as-eternal-jerk.The Batman I like cares. About EVERYONE. That’s why he does it. And he wanted Barbara to know he was proud of her.

No secret message. I was constantly (still am) fighting to get Cass and Steph included…the idea that this is intended to erase them stems, I think, from an understandable but mistaken place.

It’s funny, too, because I feel like if I had placed a different emphasis on the phrase, it wouldn’t even have come up.

But Steph and Cass fans are understandably sore and I don’t blame them.

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Ilustración de Clean Room, nueva serie Vertigo de Gail Simone y Jonathan Davis-Hunt. Los detalles aquí mismo

You guys have got to get this book. Seriously. We are so, so proud of it.

And that is Chloe’ look at that art!

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Dynamite Entertainment preview : RED SONJA - TPB vol. #2

Story by Gail Simone // Art by Walter Geovanni

Colors by Adriano Luca & Elmer Santos

Covers by Jenny Frison.

Release date: Wednesday, 22nd October, 2014

MATURE READERS

A dying emperor has a last request of Sonja. He is throwing the ultimate send-off party, and needs the six greatest artisans from all the known lands: the greatest chef, swordsman, courtesan, and more. If Sonja brings them in time, he will free a thousand slaves…but if she fails, they will be buried alive right next to his coffin!

For more info: http://www.dynamite.com .

Links(follow): Comics Preview / Red Sonja / DYNAMITE / All Comics .

Seriously, I hope people pick this up. I am intensely proud of it.

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Summer Glau

Batgirl shirt!

Stuck

Our flight was canceled because the pilot was sick (for real), so we are staying a night in Manchestet.

Please don't put Cass in Secret Six. I hated that they turned her into an anti-hero.

She would NEVER be an anti-hero in my run, nor would Ryan Choi. No way.

I didn’t get either one, so it is moot, but the team we have is a little dirtier.

Oh Mistress of Mighty Pens, Vizier of Violence and all that... will there be Lowlies? And hilarious Scandal date nights?

There is a lot of WEIRD SEX ON THE COUCH!