Gail Simone's Blog, page 57

Do you ever worry about creating an awesome character/story for one of the Big Three publishers, then being taken off the project, and having to watch someone else either just generally fuck it up, or like retcon things to make a character straight or some

Yeah, it’s happened several times. It’s frustrating. All you can do is the best you can and hope the next person isn’t a jerk.

I know that as a woman you've likely faced dismissive attitudes toward yourself and your concerns in the industry, but do you find that female characters are also treated with similar dismissiveness by editorial staff? How do you handle something like that

I plant my feet and fight, I do it all the time.

And yes, it’s a constant, it’s changing slowly, but a lot of the people working on comics have little regard for female characters, both for understandable reasons (they didn’t have a lot of great stories featuring those characters when they were young and impressionable) and less understandable (they are turds).

It’s getting better, I choose to focus on that, but I had to fight VERY fricking hard sometimes to get a spotlight for a character to show her potential.

Write the Power Rangers sequel and I'll be your friend! (Can be considered an opportunity or a threat. Delete as appropriate).

Tempting!

i want to kiss diana on the forehead and tell her i'm proud of her

Me, too.

A lot of women and a lot of men did heroic work making that film and that makes me happy.

Since we know how Round 1 between a Superhero Detective and the Purple Man went (as Jessica Jones took him on both on the page and on tv) and with Round 2 around the corner, I thought to ask, how would you see a showdown between Batman and the Purple Man g

I don’t know, mind control villains freak me out.

I know you're a television expert, so who would win: the arrow from "Arrow," or the shield from "Agents of Shield?"

I am an expert on ARROW.

So SHIELD.

Gail, have you seen Wonder Woman yet? I think you might like it.

Wonder what now?

What villain or villains do you want to see in the WW sequel?

Cheetah.

What would a Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) story or arc by you be like?

I don’t really know the character that well, I guess it would just be her Hulking out and throwing her shield at vampires.

So earlier you talked about your favorite movies this year and I was wondering why Wonder Woman wasn't on the list

Oh, crap.

Yes, Wonder Woman.

Also, Wonder Woman.