Gail Simone's Blog, page 774

Hi Gail! I loved your story for Time Warp, and that combined with an article about Doctor Who lacking in writer diversity got me thinking. Would you write for Who if you had the chance (and what would you do)?

I would, absolutely, and it’s not outside the realm of possibility as a couple people involved have talked about it (but it still seems pretty much a longshot).  Writing for the Doctor Who comics seems a lot more plausible, maybe.

I wouldn’t want to say what I would write in advance but I am pretty in love with Daleks.

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The Endless List Of Comic Characters I Love

Scandal Savage (DCU)

COME BACK SCANDAL.

I know I've asked before, but is your Red Sonja a reboot, or is it part of the prior RS continuity? (And if so, is the whole Queen Sonja/Scathach and Gath as former lovers/Sonja reincarnated thing (disclaimer: none of which I am a fan of) part of your con

It is a new start, Dynamite says it is a complete reboot but I think we will definitely refer to key elements in her history. I hate to negate stories unnecessarily.

I know I've asked before, but is your Red Sonja a reboot, or is it part of the prior RS continuity? (And if so, is the whole Queen Sonja/Scathach and Gath as former lovers/Sonja reincarnated thing (disclaimer: none of which I am a fan of) part of your con

It is a new start, Dynamite says it is a complete reboot but I think we will definitely refer to key elements in her history. I hate to negate stories unnecessarily.

I know I've asked before, but is your Red Sonja a reboot, or is it part of the prior RS continuity? (And if so, is the whole Queen Sonja/Scathach and Gath as former lovers/Sonja reincarnated thing (disclaimer: none of which I am a fan of) part of your con

It is a new start, Dynamite says it is a complete reboot but I think we will definitely refer to key elements in her history. I hate to negate stories unnecessarily.

miss simone, am i being casually racist by having quite a few of the main characters in my planned fantasy series Caucasian (or the equivalent thereof), including the main character (at least, some of the incarnations of them; it's a legacy sort of series

I can’t answer this question without knowing the material. I can’t necessarily answer this question even if I DID know the material.

But I have to wonder what possible justification anyone could have for making fantasy stories in this day and age with a vastly white-centric cast. I would want to ask WHY someone would want to tell a story, a fantasy story where rules are made up in the first place, with no or very little POC or lgbtq representation, in 2013.

I don’t get it.

It sounds kind of like you are asking for someone’s blessing here, but my natural inclination is to ask why you chose to go this route.

miss simone, am i being casually racist by having quite a few of the main characters in my planned fantasy series Caucasian (or the equivalent thereof), including the main character (at least, some of the incarnations of them; it's a legacy sort of series

I can’t answer this question without knowing the material. I can’t necessarily answer this question even if I DID know the material.

But I have to wonder what possible justification anyone could have for making fantasy stories in this day and age with a vastly white-centric cast. I would want to ask WHY someone would want to tell a story, a fantasy story where rules are made up in the first place, with no or very little POC or lgbtq representation, in 2013.

I don’t get it.

It sounds kind of like you are asking for someone’s blessing here, but my natural inclination is to ask why you chose to go this route.

miss simone, am i being casually racist by having quite a few of the main characters in my planned fantasy series Caucasian (or the equivalent thereof), including the main character (at least, some of the incarnations of them; it's a legacy sort of series

I can’t answer this question without knowing the material. I can’t necessarily answer this question even if I DID know the material.

But I have to wonder what possible justification anyone could have for making fantasy stories in this day and age with a vastly white-centric cast. I would want to ask WHY someone would want to tell a story, a fantasy story where rules are made up in the first place, with no or very little POC or lgbtq representation, in 2013.

I don’t get it.

It sounds kind of like you are asking for someone’s blessing here, but my natural inclination is to ask why you chose to go this route.

Is there any character that you did not enjoy writing? Not that you disliked/hated the character, but you just couldn't find a way to make them click with you?

There are a couple I didn’t get right in their brief appearances and it still bugs me to this day. Because of not-great research and an extreme time crunch, I didn’t get Cassandra Batgirl right in her first BOP appearance and that drives me batty because she has become my favorite anything ever.

Usually, what happens, for me, is this. Like any reader, pro writers have characters they love, some they are indifferent to, and some they just don’t care for for whatever reason.

This happens all the time. What you have to do is find something that you DO like about writing them. You have to find a core that resonates.

For me, the perfect example was J’onn, the Manhunter from Mars. I just never cared for him as a kid and that carried over. I thought he was too powerful, he didn’t really have anything I could grab onto.

Then he was included in my JLA:Classified run and I had to think about what I found interesting about him, and to me it was his mental powers, I found that stuff really compelling.

By the time I was done, J’onn had become one of my favorite characters. Not because of anything I did in writing him, he was already great. It’s just that in writing him, I discovered what his fans already knew, that he is unique and fascinating and different from other characters.

I have characters that I don’t really care about as a READER that I might find a blast to deal with as a WRITER. That is pretty common.

There are characters that I am still waiting to write to find that element I like: Iron Man, Circe, Two-Face…it doesn’t mean I dislike them, it just means as a reader, they’re not my favorites. i would have to really find something to grab onto when writing them.

Hi Gail. I was wondering if there is something tumblr has thought you.

I…………………………………………………………do not understand.