Gail Simone

Dammit. Why did this never come to fruition?!

(via fyeahlilbitoeverything)

Well, to be honest, part of it was that I really felt Static was created by people who were still in the industry, and who I felt would do a better job than I could. 

He's one of my favorite characters.  As I've said many times, there's been a lot of love for Dwayne lately from people who I never heard even mention his name when he was still with us and that still is very irksome to me. Dwayne knew how I felt about him. He was kind and supportive to me before I was a pro, kind and supportive my entire career, and he remains one of my guiding lights in many ways still.  It's intimidating to think of taking over one of his characters knowing he is still alive and could do it better himself, I know that was in my mind at the time.

I remain a Static fan. Not everyone knows this, but I love the character so much our beloved Shetland Sheepdog is named Static, after the character. We got the puppy just after I'd started writing pro work for the Simpsons. When I wrote to Dwayne to tell him that, he sent me a signed STATIC tpb just out of sheer kindness.

I'd better stop or I'm going to cry again. Dwayne was the man, he just was, and the fact that he wasn't appreciated like he deserved, in comics anyway, still stings badly. If you knew him, you had to like him. If you read his work, you admired and/or envied him.

Now I think it would make me too sad to write Static, at this point. But I am definitely looking forward to the character's appearances, he's too good not to have comics of his own.