Gail Simone's Blog, page 660
August 27, 2013
rosalarian:
I had a bit of a rant on my twitter last...
I had a bit of a rant on my twitter last night.
Dang.
All of this is true. I get gross insults almost every day, I’ve been threatened with physical violence many times.
It shouldn’t be that way.
Today is My Hubby's Birthday!
Love that guy. I married the right fella.
He’s decent and kind, but very very strong and unshakable when necessary. He’s kind of wonderful.
LOVE YOU, SWEETHEART! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
August 26, 2013
APE IN A CAPE: A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So… Not trying to...
A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So…
Not trying to pick on the anon, but I disagree with this so much.
Umm, okay, I get that as a writer you have to please the people you work for, but how can a feminist justify writing Red Sonja? Just look at her! She’s the…
Feminist complants about how characters dress is not about the outfits being too skimpy. It’s about the fact that everyone and their grandma is in a skimpy costume. PG has a boob window, great just great. Sue Storm with a boob window, WTF? Huntress showing off her belly is just wrong bullet proof, Supergirl, I can buy it. Starfire wearing hardley a thing good for her. Harley Quinn, a character who’s said she doesn’t have a great figure, probably doesn’t have the confidence to wear the revealing outfits she’s drawn in now. Taken alone Red Sonja is fine, real “barbarians” didn’t wear loincloths either. As part of the big picture she’s just another barely dressed lady in a sea of them. The solution isn’t covering everyone up, but adding diversity in clothing choices and body shapes. Give Wonder Woman a Greek battle skirt. Give us tall women and short women, thin, fat, in between, couch potatoes in sweatsuits, athleates in leotards. Normal humans in normal clothes because while some people will wear a belly shirt and a mini skirt, or a chainmail bikini, not everyone will.
This response = awesome.
I’d be happy to see more stripper versions of male heroes. Lets be fair and make everybody half naked
I do.
That is a very good point about Joker going after people he's sort of fond of. IIRC, in Batman #14 there was fairly explicit confirmation that, in his own twisted way, he's in love with Batman.
Right, he loves Batman, he really likes the Bat-family, he admires the commissioner, it’s just that his love is evolved and sometimes fatal.
Even when he kills his henchmen, he always picks his favorites and is nice to them before the deed.
mmanalysis:
ormessociety:
From Josie and the Pussycats, meet...
From Josie and the Pussycats, meet Valerie Smith! I’ll let Wikipedia do the work…
A headstrong African-American young lady, Valerie performs back-up vocals (in the comics and the movie) and occasionally sings lead (nearly always in the TV series) for the Pussycats. She is also the group’s main songwriter. In the comics, she plays the bass; in the cartoons, she plays tambourine. She is the character who saves the day the most often, thanks to her street smarts and her mechanical and scientific genius. Valerie is notable as the first African-American cartoon character on a regular animated television series.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about the cartoon version of the character, voiced by the late and great Patrice Holloway…
In 1970, [Patrice Holloway] auditioned for producer Danny Janssen, winning the part of Valerie Brown in Josie and the Pussycats, alongside Cathy Daugher (Josie) and Cheryl Ladd as ditzy drummer Melody. Patrice therefore had the distinction of being the first African-American to voice the first African-American regular series character on cartoon TV. However, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera balked at Patrice’s involvement, demanding she be recast and that Valerie become Caucasian. It’s worth noting that, in the original comic, Valerie was always intended to be African-American.
Janssen refused to back down, resulting in a 3-week standoff between the producer and Hanna-Barbera. H-B finally relented, allowing Janssen to keep Patrice in the show, and keeping her character African-American.
This is another show that needs to be rebooted. As long as Cree Summer doesn’t voice Valerie because hey, there are more black voice actresses besides Cree Summer.
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND I didn’t know any of that. Sheesh. What a great story!
"Well, that hurts. If you truly look, Batgirl… you’ll see I’m the only man in the world capable of..."
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Joker (via dclayer)
This is a quote from my Joker issues of Batgirl. It’s something I have had in mind for a long, long time.
There’s a canard in fiction that even the bad guys consider themselves the heroes of their own stories, and I think that’s pure bullshit. Some people LIKE being the bad guy, they WANT to do what they are told is wrong, they don’t think it’s heroic at all. They like it BECAUSE it’s bad and cruel.
I don’t think those people see themselves as heroes.
For the same reason, it hit me once that everything I know about the Joker leads up to him not being motivated by fear, but by twisted versions of the emotions we all crave. Even in Killing Joke, it’s not fear that makes him, it’s heartbreak.
And no one’s heart is more broken than the Joker.
So he doesn’t think he’s a hero, he knows he’s the bad apple. But I believe his origin is about love, in the same way that Batman’s is, at the core. Bruce loved his parents and lost them before he was even old enough to understand fully what that meant. His love was shrapnel in his heart, and to this day, it’s a tough muscle that doesn’t let everyone in easily.
I also have a second odd theory, I think the Joker genuinely likes people, I think he even prefers to kill people he has a bit of fondness for.
I could talk about this for a long time. But the Joker thinks he is capable of love that the rest of the world isn’t ready for.
That’s my theory.
How much free reign do you have over the upcoming Tomb Raider comics and do you feel somewhat confined when coming up with plots as the comics lead directly into the next game?
Not very much at all, I wrote a MASSIVE twelve issue outline, just a huge document, and they allowed virtually all of it as written with only minor revisions.
If people hate it, it’s my fault.
:)
APE IN A CAPE: A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So… Not trying to...
A Bunch Of People Asked Me To Make This Rebloggable, So…
Not trying to pick on the anon, but I disagree with this so much.
Umm, okay, I get that as a writer you have to please the people you work for, but how can a feminist justify writing Red Sonja? Just look at her! She’s the…
Feminist complants about how characters dress is not about the outfits being too skimpy. It’s about the fact that everyone and their grandma is in a skimpy costume. PG has a boob window, great just great. Sue Storm with a boob window, WTF? Huntress showing off her belly is just wrong bullet proof, Supergirl, I can buy it. Starfire wearing hardley a thing good for her. Harley Quinn, a character who’s said she doesn’t have a great figure, probably doesn’t have the confidence to wear the revealing outfits she’s drawn in now. Taken alone Red Sonja is fine, real “barbarians” didn’t wear loincloths either. As part of the big picture she’s just another barely dressed lady in a sea of them. The solution isn’t covering everyone up, but adding diversity in clothing choices and body shapes. Give Wonder Woman a Greek battle skirt. Give us tall women and short women, thin, fat, in between, couch potatoes in sweatsuits, athleates in leotards. Normal humans in normal clothes because while some people will wear a belly shirt and a mini skirt, or a chainmail bikini, not everyone will.
This response = awesome.
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