Gail Simone's Blog, page 28

riverofmolecules:

“Keep faith, trust to love. Fight with honor, but fight to win.”

— Gail Simone, Wonder Woman: The Circle

lauraandliterature:

Gail Simone (Comics)

The All-New Atom - Enter Ryan Choi – the young hotshot professor filling the empty slot on Ivy University’s teaching staff…and who inadvertently fills the role as the all-new super-heroic Atom
Batgirl - Will Barbara be able to survive her explosive confrontations with new villains, as well as facing dark secrets from her past?
Birds of Prey - The Birds of Prey are back! Oracle, Black Canary, Huntress and Lady Blackhawk all return to Gotham City, where they belong - and they’ve brought a couple of new friends (or are they foes?) along with them.Deadpool Classic, Volumes 9 & 10 - When Deadpool crosses paths with the Black Swan, the telepathic villain infects Wade with a virus that eats away at his mind. Can Deadpool overcome his degenerating thought processes and continue his merc work?Gen¹³ - The life of a teenager can be a strange experience, but when super-powers are added to the mix things get a whole lot more confusing. Meet Caitlin, Sarah, Roxy, Bobby, and Eddie – outcast teenagers from different parts of the country who quickly learn they all have something in common: abilities far beyond those of their classmates. 
JLA Classified, Vol. 4: The Hypothetical Woman - The Justice League of America is caught in a harrowing situation after being sent by the United Nations Security Council to intervene in a South American nation ruled by an iron-fisted dictator. But General Tuzik has an ace up his sleeve: The Hypothetical Woman, a mysterious being who enables Tuzik to create his own evil version of the JLA.
Leaving Megalopolis - When the caped heroes of the world’s safest city inexplicably all turn into homicidal lunatics, no one is safe.
The Movement - Who defends the powerless against the greedy and the corrupt? Who protects the homeless and poverty-stricken from those who would prey upon them in the dark of night? They are the Movement–and they are fighting back.Red Sonja - Red Sonja, the She-Devil with a Sword, intends to pay back a blood debt owed to the one man who has gained her respect… even if it means leading a doomed army to their certain deaths!Secret Six - The Society’s murderous mission rocks the status quo between good and evil as shocking revelations make certain that when the Secret Six complete their mission, nothing in the DC Universe will ever be the same!Superman: Strange Attractors - This volume features Superman squaring off against an assortment of vile villains including Dr. Polaris, Dr. Psycho, Black Adam, Satanus and Livewire.
Tomb Raider Volume 1 : Season of the Witch - Lara and the other survivors of the Endurance are experiencing horrific visions after their ordeal in the lost kingdom of Yamatai. But the visions lead to a darker fate, can Lara survive the calamities that await her as she struggles to piece this new mystery, and her life, back together?
Welcome to Tranquility - Tranquility is like any other small town in America, except for one fundamental difference–it’s the town where super-powered beings go in order to retire and raise families. Wonder Woman, Volumes 3-7 - An army of foes called the Olympians have risen to begin their all-out assault on war across the globe and only Wonder Woman can stop them!

faeruy:

I think Gail Simone is trying to tell us something important about the King Shark but I can’t for the life of me figure out what it is.

tessatechaitea:

Did you know the gargoyles in the Gargoyle cartoon show were really grotesques? You could tell because they weren’t drooling and vomiting in every other scene.



Rating: No change.



Batgirl visits the Secret Six world which is the suburbs of Burnside or something. She’s trying to get a warning to Strix because Lady Shiva is hunting Strix. Imagine how much easier it would be to send Strix a message if the Birds of Prey had actually purchased her an iPad instead of just giving her that shitty pad of paper and the hardened raccoon poop to scratch out messages. If they’d actually wanted to communicate with her, they would have spent a few extra bucks setting her up with a Waynetech Communication Tablet or a qPad or a Kord Industries Scarab Tablet. I’m pretty sure you can receive email on all of those devices! You know on what item you can’t receive an email warning you of a dangerous assasin hunting you? A ninety-nine cent pad of paper! The Birds of Prey were jerks.



Strix is busy getting a makeover because it’s time she learned that she should accept who she is. But she has to learn that from a puppet because nobody can accept who they are until somebody else tells them it’s okay to accept who they are. That’s just logic.



Ralph also receives a message from Sue because she’s finally remembered how much she loves his elastic dick and hates listening to stupid fucking riddles.



A fun time is had by all and Batgirl may have achieved her very first partner-induced orgasm while rolling around on the grass with Catman. I’d say it’s a high probability that that happened so I’m going to pencil it in as fact in the Batgirl Entry in my copy of Who’s Who.

First Non-Masturbatory Orgasm: Catman in Secret Six #11 (while a goat with a fly’s head watched)

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Clean Room #10

Writer: Gail Simone
Art: Jon Davis-Hunt
Colors: Quinton WInter
Letters: Todd Klein

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Dammit! So perfect!

gailsimone:

So, I was on Twitter this morning, talking about a thing I like to call the ‘Batmobile Effect,’ and some friends like the great Ian Rankin and the wonderful Ed Brubaker jumped in, it was great fun.

The Batmobile Effect seems to hit every pro writer who works on licensed characters at some point or another, I don’t know anyone who is immune. I have heard similar statements from editors and artists, as well.

It goes like this. You get a pro assignment working on a character you loved as a kid, and the first time you are working on that character, some small thing that is part of their mythos suddenly SMACKS YOU IN THE FACE AND YOU REALIZE YOU ARE WRITING BATMAN (or Spider-man, or Godzilla, or whomever it is that you loved as a kid).

For bat-writers, it’s almost always the first time they write the word ‘batarang (which it was for Ed Brubaker and Devin Grayson)’ or maybe the word 'batmobile, (which it was for me).’

It’s this amazing feeling, like a HOLY SHIT moment. No matter how cynical you fancy yourself, no matter how jaded, when you realize you are writing that character that meant so much to you as a younger reader. And the triggers are often very small…who would think grown men and women would shout out loud over the word 'batarang?’ But we do, and we’ve almost all done it.

Ed said it also happened to him the first time he wrote Cap throwing his shield. It’s happened MANY times for me…Batgirl, Red Sonja, Oracle, Justice League, Wolverine, Kato, just on and on. It still happens and I am coming up on having written 500 comics!

I think, if I may wax goofy for a moment. I think it’s more than just, WOW, look at how my dreams came true!

I think it’s also a direct, electrical charge, like a time machine. In a passing word that represents a physical manifestation of a concept we loved, we are communicating directly with our previous selves.

Maybe Batman helped us get through tough family times, maybe Superman was a father figure, maybe the X-men helped us be okay with our sexuality, whatever. When we finally get to write those characters, we are, in some small way, talking directly to ourselves at a time when those characters were a big part of the joy in our lives, and maybe even a reason to go on living.

Beyond that, there’s also this amazing feeling of the tapestry, the huge lineage that goes back decades, maybe more, all the way back to the original creators of the characters in question. When you type the word 'batmobile,’ you are putting yourself in a room with all the people who wrote or drew that weird car all the way back to Bill Finger, including Neal Adams, Denny O'Neil, Frank Miller, and hundreds of others. You’re in, you’re an inside man or woman.

And finally, I think there’s a dim awareness that we suddenly realize that there may be thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of people out there who may be reading this character for the first time, or maybe this is the story that makes THEM feel what WE felt years ago. And maybe someday THEY type 'batmobile’ on whatever brain software Apple has declared mandatory in the year 2030. :)
I don’t know anyone who hasn’t experienced it at least once. For some pros, maybe it’s not Gotham City that turns that switch, maybe it’s a Legion Flight Ring, or a web-shooter, or any of a thousand other little joyful explosions back to childhood. Maybe it’s video game characters, or rpg charts, or who knows what else.

But I don’t know anyone who Is immune. We’re all infected by that joy at some point, even if we don’t want to admit it.

The Batmobile Effect.

So my question to pro creators out there…
Have you ever had a Batmobile Effect moment, and if so, what was it over?

gailsimone:

“I had this silly little dream. I thought that we might be part of something better. Where people cared about each other. Where compassion wasn’t seen as weakness. Where those in power helped people, without judgement. I thought maybe we could remind people, you know? That it’s okay to care.”

— Virtue, The Movement #12 (via g00kie-m0nster)