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Secret Six v3 #8

Hahaha, I got a bunch of scornful tweets and fb comments about this. :) But the "right on!" posts outnumbered them about fifty to one.

Scandal Savage far and away is one of the most badass characters in the past decade of comic books. Period. The fact that she's a deeply damaged, sympathetic layered character beyond her sexual orientation just makes her even more so. 

What on earth did the detractors have to say? (Secret Six was hardly a book for children)

I hesitate to even repeat it, you know the drill. Too much "gay stuff," blah blah blah. Several people wrote and said they could, "no longer support the book," often because of their religious beliefs. Fair enough, I would respond, that's your problem, …but you're okay with the cannibalism and necrophilia? A book where two characters have dinner on decomposed flesh is fine, but HOLY SHIT DON'T LET TWO WOMEN KISS. ;)

Where would this medium be without Gail Simone?! 

I don't want to imply that it was some big deal, I just found it kind of funny. The interesting thing about Secret Six, and I stress this is just an unintended by-product, but I had a LOT of conservative and religious people say that they really came to root for Scandal's love life when they hadn't expected to…one guy did a whole podcast about how she had made him rethink his positions on gay and polyamorous relationships. It wasn't ever the goal or the point, but I thought that was a nice side-effect, that she made people rethink some prejudices. Fiction is power, I swear. I want to be able to do that with a gay male hero sometime this year. Be nice to have that in more dc books.

Dear Gail Simone,

I love you.

Love your fan,
Derek

Seriously.  Why aren't there more mainstream writers like this in every form of media? 

Sweetie, I love you, too!

You give me far too much credit, but thank you so much.