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White Canary vs Black Canary! by Shmuberry and Delatree

Photo by MrJechgo

This is amazing!

About the Powell's Signing Tonight

Some people asked some questions and I didn’t know the answers…

But I asked, so yay!

You CAN bring books to be signed, that’s fine. You don’t have to purchase anything or anything of that nature, just bring your smiling self and something to sign, but we will also have fresh new copies of TOMB RAIDER and LEAVING MEGALOPOLIS if you like!

And the signing starts at six pm and goes at least an hour, I will stay longer if people are still coming, no worries at all. If you are going to be a  little late, send a tweet or a note here on Tumblr and I will stay til you get there, cool?

That’s it, see you tonight! 9/19/14!

Hi Gail! I recently bought the first volume of Red Sonja and I absolutely loved it. You're so talented! I look forward to reading more of your work. My question for you is how does Sonja, in her own mind, explain the bikini armor? I know she must have

She likes it.

Seriously, that’s my reason. She likes it. 

There’s more stuff…she’s Hyrkanian, she’s a hunter, she relies on speed more than defense, but mostly, she likes it and she wears what she wants to wear.

Okay Gail, it's time to level with us fans once and for all. We've got to finally clear up this King Shark business. He's not really royalty, is he?

You are missing the key element, which is that he is a SHARK.

So, I just now put the Batman cowl on my son’s head and asked him to think of the most Batman...

So, I just now put the Batman cowl on my son’s head and asked him to think of the most Batman thing he could possibly say, and he paused a moment and said,

"BATMAN DOES NOT EAT NACHOS."

I love that kid.

When you say you have ALL the Disney Infinity figures, does that include the ones from movies you don't even like?

Yep, even Phineas, and I don’t even know what that is.

Does the poop guy who referred to Batman know about Batman's love of corn?

Let’s hope so, little one. Let’s hope so, for all our sakes. 

How viable is it to just design a character and their role and then just randomize their race/gender/sexuality and what not?

I can see how people could do it, I used to make up backstories for randomly generated characters in role-playing games and such.

But I don’t think that’s really what writing’s about, to be honest.

If we’re going for a ride, we have to know how to drive, you know?

I appreciate the edit to the answer to my question. To be clear -- I LOVE Grant Morrison's work. His Batman and Robin along with Chuck Dixon's Nightwing got me into comics. But when you read some of his stuff, and you here stories about him, he seems to be

Oh, he’s eccentric, but life would suck without eccentrics.

I love him lots.

hypothetically speaking is it possible for a writer to just make a major character gay/bi/pan/etc. if they wanted to or would the ptb not allow that to happen?

You can’t really make any major change to a major character without getting it approved first. I would think this qualifies.