Gail Simone's Blog, page 748

Hullo Ms. Simone - I just want to pop in and say that I've been learning a lot lately from your humility and your acknowledgement that we all have so much more to learn. Sometimes I want to get on my high horse and lecture people (especially on the interne

That is very sweet, I wish it were entirely true, but the truth is, man alive, i have been a jackass online so many times I have lost count.

It’s not humility to say so, it’s just finally getting it through my noggin that the high horse just means you have further to fall.

I used to follow threads about my work and argue with readers, which is completely an obnoxious move. I often wouldn’t listen when people who knew what they were talking about would object to something, bleah, I ran the gamut.

I don’t care about criticism that much any more. I get mad when people insult friends, I see red at that, though.

Tryin’ to do better. But thanks!

Hullo Ms. Simone - I just want to pop in and say that I've been learning a lot lately from your humility and your acknowledgement that we all have so much more to learn. Sometimes I want to get on my high horse and lecture people (especially on the interne

That is very sweet, I wish it were entirely true, but the truth is, man alive, i have been a jackass online so many times I have lost count.

It’s not humility to say so, it’s just finally getting it through my noggin that the high horse just means you have further to fall.

I used to follow threads about my work and argue with readers, which is completely an obnoxious move. I often wouldn’t listen when people who knew what they were talking about would object to something, bleah, I ran the gamut.

I don’t care about criticism that much any more. I get mad when people insult friends, I see red at that, though.

Tryin’ to do better. But thanks!

Hullo Ms. Simone - I just want to pop in and say that I've been learning a lot lately from your humility and your acknowledgement that we all have so much more to learn. Sometimes I want to get on my high horse and lecture people (especially on the interne

That is very sweet, I wish it were entirely true, but the truth is, man alive, i have been a jackass online so many times I have lost count.

It’s not humility to say so, it’s just finally getting it through my noggin that the high horse just means you have further to fall.

I used to follow threads about my work and argue with readers, which is completely an obnoxious move. I often wouldn’t listen when people who knew what they were talking about would object to something, bleah, I ran the gamut.

I don’t care about criticism that much any more. I get mad when people insult friends, I see red at that, though.

Tryin’ to do better. But thanks!

Hi, Gail! I got The Movement on FCBD! Let me just say that the characters in it, especially Katharsis, Virtue, Mouse, & Tremor, are just REALLY AWESOME! *As well as The Secretary, who I'm now naming Mary Sue, as well as many others! :)

The secretary?

I might be missing something…do you mean the girl in the wheelchair?

Hi, Ms Gail! I just read The Movement a few moments ago. The opening sequence is brilliant, and really, it's such an interesting story. One thing nagged me though, and that would be Virtue's... hostility towards the Captain of the CCPD. Maybe I missed some

Virtue has reason not to trust police, but yeah, I think she overreacted too.

Nothing’s purely black and white, next issue we start to see more of the Movement and the police, as well.

Glad you liked it!

Hi, Ms Gail! I just read The Movement a few moments ago. The opening sequence is brilliant, and really, it's such an interesting story. One thing nagged me though, and that would be Virtue's... hostility towards the Captain of the CCPD. Maybe I missed some

Virtue has reason not to trust police, but yeah, I think she overreacted too.

Nothing’s purely black and white, next issue we start to see more of the Movement and the police, as well.

Glad you liked it!

comicpanels:From The Movement #1 by Simone/Williams II.GO...

comicpanels:

From The Movement #1 by Simone/Williams II.

GO KULAP!

darkrobins:"my name's virtue, captain. nice to meet you. now...

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"my name's virtue, captain. nice to meet you. now get the hell out"
- the movement #1

I love the whole cast, I honestly do. And I don’t want to play favorites.

BUT MAN I LOVE VIRTUE.

circutron:Hey there, guys! Meet Genocide. Do you know who this...

circutron:

Hey there, guys! Meet Genocide. Do you know who this fresh daisy is? No? That’s probably because she doesn’t exist as of New 52, and thank God for that!

You see, Genocide is what happens when Gail Simone suddenly got an idea for a new supervillain and no editors went over it before it went to print. Why do I know this? Because I have a feeling Genocide would have been rejected or heavily retooled if any editors read her backstory before she went to print.

So here’s the deal, Lex Luthor’s band of merry misfits and ne’er-do-wells, The Secret Society of Super Villains, decided that… hey, best way to kill Wonder Woman is with herself. They weren’t being metaphorical or something here. This wasn’t mind control or some guilt-trip stuff. They were going to kill her with herself… from the future… well, her dead body from the future. Roll with me here.

Sounds serviceable enough? Sounds like a fun use of time travel to me. Good on you for that, Gail… but. There’s still the issue of how reviving the future corpse of Wonder Woman suddenly creates her Doomsday. She’s gotta be evil somehow. They’re using magic to do this, so they need ingredients, right? I wonder what wait guys no GUYS

Writing supervillains, you gotta toe the line a bit. You have to make them assholes, without a shadow of a doubt, so your superhero is (at least partially) justified on some level in smashing their teeth in. Gail went the opposite route here with Genocide, as you can tell from the naming. She took “asshole” for the SSSV, drove it towards a brick wall, and then kicked in the nitrous while laughing the entire way. This is some Captain Planet for Adults shit here. We’re looking at a supervillain powered by literally the Holocaust and also Darfur and let’s throw in some Cambodia and Rwanda for good measure.

Over the top is okay. KGBeast from Batman was over the top and fucking amazing in a “What the hell is even HAPPENING” way because of it. Dude tore his own arm off to evade capture. Hackneyed is not okay. Having a supervillain powered by diaspora ghosts is not okay. It’s silly-ass writing for the SSSV, and it’s silly writing for comics in general.

Jesus, Gail, you had an off-day here.

Did I?

First, I didn’t write the panels you are commenting on here, I don’t even think they appeared in the WW title, they are from another book. I’m not sure who wrote them.

Second, to be honest, editors were the ones who made me change the origin in mid-story, sadly. It happens, I’m not blaming anyone, but the thing you are saying would have been saved by editors actually CAME from editors.

It happens, sucks sometimes, but it happens. There’s a lot of entertainment in that book for me still, but we had to change a lot mid-stream.

distractedbyshinyobjects:Read Gail Simone’s The Movement #1...

distractedbyshinyobjects:

Read Gail Simone’s The Movement #1 today: best opening scene hook I’ve ever read in comics. And what a great tribute to the Hollaback movement to end street harassment.

I’m already thinking of converting my Court of the Owls mask from SDCC last year into an M mask with silver spray paint.

Either way, my phone is ready.

HOW AWESOME IS THAT.