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‘Dark Matter’ EP Vanessa Piazza Sets Multi-Year Producing Partnership with eOne (EXCLUSIVE)

‘Dark Matter’ EP Vanessa Piazza Sets Multi-Year Producing Partnership with eOne (EXCLUSIVE):

thehappysorceress:

HUGE NEWS!

Gail Simone and Cat Staggs’s Crosswind is being adapted!

Vanessa Piazza is amazing. I love her already.

littlemissonewhoisall:Gail Simone’s Twitter currently consists entirely of singing Porgs.

littlemissonewhoisall:

Gail Simone’s Twitter currently consists entirely of singing Porgs.

comics-and-things:“We won’t be dry, perhaps. But we’ll be...

comics-and-things:

“We won’t be dry, perhaps. But we’ll be warm.”

(from Red Sonja TPB #3)

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damnyourdarkeyes:This whole panel was pretty great. I’m...

damnyourdarkeyes:

This whole panel was pretty great. I’m linking from the question that I got to ask, which was for examples of cases where the panelists learned to say ‘no.’ 

Sometimes when my cat jumps into my lap, I force her into a position that's more comfortable to me. Does that make me gross? Maybe you're the wrong person to ask. I probably should have asked Neil Gaiman.

That doesn’t make you gross.

It’s all the other stuff.

Killian knows what’s up.

Killian knows what’s up.

Gail, I sometimes feel like people who write Batman to be a bloody, emotionally distant jerk. As someone who doesn't, why do you think so many writers don't want to write Bruce as someone who cares deeply for his friends, and more importantly for his Bat-F

I think people are always trying to recapture the Batman that they first fell in love with. For me, that was the smart detective who could be kind to people, even while kicking ass. For others, it’s Frank Miller’s Batman, or Tim Burton’s, or some other grim avenger.

I think that’s okay. I like that the icons are big enough that everyone can have a version they love best. 

Just bought "Swords of Sorrow" - how do I explain the cheesecakey cover to my parents?

I think you say we messed up and got the wrong cover. Lots of the covers were cheesecake, but this one, much as I love J. Scott Campbell, was just a bad choice. I found out about it too late. I have been promised that when a new edition is made, it will have a cover that fits the tone of the book better. 

I like cheesecake, I don’t even mind the art itself at all, it just didn’t fit the book inside and that wasn’t good for readers…people who think it’s a ‘bad girl’ book because of the cover don’t get the interior they expected, and people who want the interior have a cover that’s completely wrong for the book. 

It happens, it’s not intentional.  It’s just that this case was pretty off-model in terms of tone. I like J. Scott, I love his art, I think he’s a good guy. He was just doing the cover as he was asked.

What makes me sad about it is that we had dozens of covers, some of them simply spectacularly beautiful.  The process went wrong, I think.  It happens. 

Has the sword always been a major part of Wonder Woman's arsenal? I know it's everywhere now, but I feel like pre-Infinite Crisis or so it wasn't really a thing except maybe on rare occasions.

No, the sword is a relatively late addition.