Gail Simone's Blog, page 399

So I poop in my pants then scoop it out of my pants and then i smear it all over my face while sticking chunks in my nostrils because I'm batman and eat some of my poop.

We never just TALK anymore, Herbert. 

Does writing B-list characters give you a lot more room to do cool stuff?

I don’t write b-list characters.

:)

radiationdude:Spider Gwen by JoeyVazquezThis is my favorite...

radiationdude:

Spider Gwen by JoeyVazquez

This is my favorite recent costume design by miles. It  looks amazing cosplayed, too. 

I’m gonna buy this just for the costume!

For those who doubt my Infinity dedication…that’s...

For those who doubt my Infinity dedication…that’s every one of the figures. 

I don’t have all the power discs, but I have a ridiculous amount!

All I do is pooping in my pants everyday.

I can’t help it, this made me laugh.

Have you ever gotten invitations to speak at colleges and such?

Oh, sure, I speak at colleges and library conferences when I can, I get probably twenty such invites a month.

Have to turn most of them down, sadly, due to time.

But Gail, I thought there was a new 52 BoP?

Yes, but it was recently canceled.

Very Interesting!

I have spoken before that Dynamite Comics has really impressed me with its forward thinking in the past year or so.

I once thought of them as a cheesecake company only, yet soon, they will have more female creators writing regular books than companies ten times their size, and they are producing genuinely interesting stuff with fantastic writers and artists.

Now they are doing a couple new things…I wonder if the rest of the industry will follow?

First, they are now offering their comics as DRM free on their Dynamite Digital website. This is a bigger deal than it sounds, it could even be a game changer.

Additionally, they are no allowing digital book payments in Bitcoin.

Now, I am not sure if these are going to change the other companies, but I find it very cool to be working for a company that seems to be keeping up with the desires of its readers in this way.

As an aside, they have a bunch of #1 issues up on their site for just ten cents each as a trial offer, and are offering a very cool bundle of some great books, 25 books for just ten bucks, or around 40 cents each, by some great creators (including some Red Sonja!).

Books included in the 10 dollar bundle are:

Project Superpowers #0 - 3 - by Alex Ross and Jim Kruegar 
Jungle Girl #0 -1 - by Frank Cho and Doug Murray 
Mocking Dead #1 - by Fred Van Lente 
Sherlock Holmes: Trial #1 - 2 - by Leah Moore, John Reppion and Aaron Campbell 
Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet #1 - by Kevin Smith, Phil Hester and Jonathan Lau 
Red Sonja #1 - 2 - by Gail Simone and Walter Geovanni 
Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time #1 - 3 - by Chuck Dixon 
Legenderry #1 - by Bill Willingham and Sergio Fernandez Davila 
Chaos! #1 - by Tim Seeley and Mirka Andolfo, main cover by J. Scott Campbell 
Jim Butcher’s Dresden War Cry #1 - by Jim Butcher and Mark Powers 
Pathfinder: Dark Waters #1 - by Jim Zub 
Miss Fury #1 - 2 - by Rob Williams 
American Flagg #1- 2 - by Howard Chaykin 
Vampirella #1- by Eric Trautmann

Also, during this opening, a portion goes to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Very cool!

Like I say, I don’t know how this will shake out, but DRM free, and acceptance of Bitcoin is stuff people have been asking for…I am very curious to see what happens, here!

http://dynamite.com/digital/

Note there is also some cool free wallpaper, I have the Jenny Frison Red Sonja up on my computer right now. 

 

If There Was A New 52 Bop

I have said many times how important I think Birds of Prey is to the industry, regardless of who is writing it. I think it’s one of THE best gateway books the industry has had for decades…lots of licensed tie-in books bring in female readers, but BOP seemed to create more female long-term comics fans than almost any other book out there. 

I think there needs to be ONE book that is about a female team, that it’s part of the book’s DNA, as it were. We have other books that try, but most of them have not had the long-time impact of BOP, I feel.

So just for fun and not for any particular reason…

Who would you want to see on a New52 Birds of Prey team?

Once again, Nicola Scott nails it first try.This is Jeannette,...

Once again, Nicola Scott nails it first try.

This is Jeannette, sans underwear, as always. Nicola’s first sketch nailed it exactly!