Gail Simone's Blog, page 762
April 16, 2013
msjayjustice:
Nubia pics! I’m working on a new set of armor,...
Ready to kick some butt.
They asked to see the guns B)
Awww it's WonderDog! :D
Nubia & Wonder Girl
Meanwhile, at Castle Grayskull...
Avery Brooks! He called me Nubia and I nearly died XD
Nicola Scott! So much love.
Gail Simone! I can't wait to see her again at MegaCon!
Nubia pics! I’m working on a new set of armor, going to be a completely different design based on her Action Comics #9 outfit. Can’t wait til Dragon*Con!! :)
LOVE YOU, JAY JUSTICE!
April 15, 2013
Kinda Fun, Top Ten Stories By Me At Comics Should Be Good
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/04/14/the-greatest-gail-simone-stories-ever-told/
They have a list of the top ten Simone stories as chosen by Comics Should Be Good. It’s a fun list, I’m happy to see most of the choices on there.
Do you agree with their choices, or disagree? What would you choose as number one? Are there any stories you feel SHOULD be on there?
Just for fun, not taking it seriously. :)
April 14, 2013
teeth: Reasons Why Supanova Was Dreadful (Don’t Say, ‘I Told You...
Reasons Why Supanova Was Dreadful (Don’t Say, ‘I Told You So!’)
Everyone was dressed up as Finn and Fionna and kept yelling ‘ADVENTURE TIME!’
Anime Cosplay kids sure do scream a lot.
There was a whole lot of guys taking photos of female cosplayers without their consent, some even persisting…
It was a pleasure to meet you, I remember you.
The advice still stands, people will always want to be roadblocks, but what they really are is hurdles.
Jump the hell over them and leave them wondering where you went and why they’re still left in the dust going nowhere.
tsoetedja:
Batgirl & Batman cosplayers #cosplay #cosplayer...
Batgirl & Batman cosplayers #cosplay #cosplayer #supanova #supanovaexpo #batgirl #batman (at Supanova Expo (Pop Culture Expo))
This woman was one of the most amazing Batgirl cosplayers I’d ever seen…she looked like she jumped off the comics page!
ainlina:
Batgirl, shoot by L² Photography, can be seen...
Batgirl, shoot by L² Photography, can be seen here =3
WOW!
Beautiful, I love that cape design, too.
Fantastic cosplay!
alpha-comics:
A super-special, exclusive Stephanie Buscema Red...
A super-special, exclusive Stephanie Buscema Red Sonja #1 cover, only available to comic shop subscribers and limited to initial orders!
I LOVE THIS COVER.
April 13, 2013
Today At Supanova Expo, Melbourne!
I have a panel with Nicola and Tom Taylor, and I SHOULD have the free Red Sonja mini-prints to give away, with art by the mighty Nicola Scott. Come get one!
What Was The Best Part of My Day Yesterday?
Hmmm.
What a good question!
Was it discussing comics with one of my heroes, the lovely Dave Gibbons, co-creator of Watchmen, and having him ask me to work on something for his new project?
Was it meeting the actor who played Bombur and having a great discussion with him, and finding out that he’s sweet and kind?
Was it meeting RIVER SONG, Alex Kingston, and talking with her at length about Dinah Lance and her Doctor Who character (by the way, I keep saying this, but I have met many beautiful actresses…Alex Kingston in person is LUMINOUS. Honest to god, she has the grace of a princess and is just stunning)? We had lunch together and bonded a little over the Dinah Lance thing, she could NOT have been kinder or more gracious.
I don’t flip out over actors, to be honest. I just don’t care about celebrity. But okay, meeting Bombur and River Song, well, I totally lost my composure.
Was it seeing my beloved friends Dee and Cam and Cassandra James again?
Was it all the lovely gifts people brought (art, cake, custom made Birds of Prey shoes and bracelet, badges, chocolates, books, and lots more) just to be sweet?
Was it having lunch with Dave, Alex, and Barbara Eden and finding they were all as charming and lovely as you could possibly hope?
Was it meeting all the lovely people from the trans community who said lovely things about Alysia?
Was it meeting all the wonderful readers who made me feel very welcome and joyful?
Was it getting to see my sister, Nicola Scott again? And sitting between her and Terry and Rachel Dodson in Artist’s Alley?
I don’t know, but it is going to be HARD TO LEAVE AUSTRALIA. YOU PEOPLE ARE FREAKING LOVELY.
Seriously, thank you guys so much for making an Oregon ex-hairdresser feel loved!
April 12, 2013
Transgender character in Batgirl comic book
I think it’s great that DC is revealing this character to be transgender. But I find it curious that they also decided to make her bisexual. I can’t help having cynical thoughts like “they want to have a pretty lady kiss another pretty lady,” or “they didn’t want to commit to saying her sexual orientation is straight.” Hopefully I’m wrong. I’d love to hear from the writer as to why they chose to do it this way.
Thank you for this note!
Okay, I think I understand your concern, unless there’s an element I am missing by being on the outside, so to speak. And I understand the concern about having women kiss for the (straight) male gaze, certainly.
But so far, we have only seen Alysia date a boy.
And I think I’m missing some context on the last bit, why would we be afraid to commit to having her be straight?
I am sure there’s an element here I don’t understand and I hope you don”t mind elaborating a bit further?
It would be much appreciated!
LOVE SEEING SOME BIPHOBIA ON MY DASH
I honestly thought I was missing something. I read the note a bunch of times.
Alysia is bi because the rest of the cast has long been established as straight and in the year 2013 I don’t want to write any more books where the entire cast is straight.
I think the first commenter’s concern (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong) is that by not making this particular character straight, there is some level of discomfort with her gender?
None whatsoever.
I’m so confused now. How would being bisexual have any impact at all on someone’s gender identity?
Or are we confusing sexuality and gender identity again? Because that really isn’t cool, guys.
That is why I don’t understand the OP’s comment. I don’t get it.
It’s an example of the annoyingly prevalent attitude that bi or pansexuality is not an actual orientation but rather an “excuse” to “not pick” one. A lot of people in this world seem to think that orientation is binary. You either are one thing or you’re another. If you’re not male, you’re female. If you’re not straight, you’re gay. They reject the concept that a person could exist within a grey area between the two poles - bi/pansexuals or gender queer for example - or exist outside of the scope of the poles altogether - asexuality for example.
While they’re busy ignoring that gender and sexuality are far from binary, they’re also conflating sexuality with romantic inclinations. A person could be heterosexual - sexually or physically attracted to the opposite gender - and homoromantic - romantically or emotionally attracted to the same gender. Or visa versa. Or someone could be aromantic - not having an emotional attraction to anyone, even if there is a sexual attraction - just as they could be asexual - not having a sexual or physical attraction to anyone.
Basically what it boils down to is you’ve got a bunch of people out there who claim they’re allies or support something, when what they’re really doing is insisting on everyone fitting into neat little boxes of conformity where they are comfortable and understand everything.
I think people need to step back and look at how they’re reacting to this situation. There was no representation for transgendered people in mainstream comics. Now there is.
When someone helps you with something (especially when it’s someone who has no vested interest in helping you, and doesn’t owe you anything) the proper response is to say “thank you” and appreciate the effort. How you should not respond is be shoving your middle fingers in their face and yelling “FUCK YOU FOR NOT DOING IT EXACTLY THE WAY I WANTED IT DONE! You’re a biggot!”
Please explain how “yay! Trans*character! Now why did you make them bi? Was the logic you were afraid of making them straight?” = helping with something. Also, saying there was no representation for trans*gendered people in mainstream comics is a misnomer as it’s just not true.
In the early 1990s, we had Shvaughn Erin with the Legion of Superheros. She was retconned away, but she still existed. We also had Marisa Rahm in Death Wish thanks to Milestone - a DC imprint. Camelot 3000 from the 1980s had Sir Tristian, a man reincarnated as a woman fully aware of his male incarnation and identifying as a man. You also had Rebis (fusion being from a man and a woman), Danny the Street, Coagula, and Kate Godwin from Doom Patrol. There was Wanda from Sandman, Lord Fanny from The Invisibles, and Shade the Changing Man from his self-titled series (there was a whole arc about it titled “Shade the Changing Woman” if I remember right). Mantra from Mantra was originally a man born in a woman’s body even if Marvel deliberately did away with the trans* aspect once they acquired the Ultraverse. Masquerade from Blood Syndicate was born with a female body but used his powers to appear male. And God knows I’m probably forgetting some.
Yeah, some of those are not “mainstream”, but growing up in a small town in middle America, I still had access to all of those titles and still have many of them to this day.
We have to take some of the blame for even using the word, “first.” No one is even reading the way we qualified it, and it was such a non-issue on my side. I don’t care about the ‘first’ part. But saying it muddied the issue and every news story jumped on that part, and not the qualifiers (that we were talking about a non-fantasy based trans character). But in retrospect, even with the qualifiers, I wish we hadn’t talked about her being the first of anything. Particularly, people who don’t know comics don’t know the fine distinctions we were making, and it looks like paving over the work of people like Rachel Pollack, who is a goddamn hero and was doing trans issues in comics decades ago. A lot of this was the way the stories got linked everywhere, all qualifiers got ignored (not in all stories, but in most). But I now think we should have just said, maybe, first in the bat-verse, or just a new trans character and have done with ‘first’ entirely.
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