Quotes by Gail Simone - Page 2

Catman - what I really like about him is he's a really grounded character in terms of - he's an excellent tracker. We're giving him a set of new skills for 'Secret Six' as it starts again anew. But he's very sexy, very dangerous, unpredictable.
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Grounded
New Skills
Anew
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One of the things I am most excited about personally is a five-issue anthology I put together, 'Legends of Red Sonja,' which is full of wonderful little short stories written exclusively by my favorite female writers of comics, prose, and gaming.
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Anthology
Gaming
Legends
Prose
Comics
Short Stories
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I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers. I don't care if some books have cheesecake. I am fine with all of that. It's the not allowing anything else that makes me furious.
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Allowing
Cheesecake
Furious
I Am Me Care
Appeal
Creators
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With 'Red Sonja', it's a single character leading a book although there's a supporting cast, whereas 'Secret Six' is basically six characters who have equal time and equal place in the book, so it's got a team dynamic that 'Red Sonja' doesn't have.
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Dynamic
Supporting
Whereas
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I've said this many times: I don't care which hero punches which hero to get the Infinity Jockstrap or whatever. I do care that people find humanity in these stories, and maybe something connects, makes the world a little better for having read it.
Gail Simone / Writer
Don't Care
Hero
Humanity
Infinity
Connects
Punches
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Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.
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Bizarre
Cutting
Dragons
Gender
Heroines
Hung
Red
Romance
Buffy
Comics
Existed
Heads
Pirates
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Famously, DC has been pretty great showing gay women, with characters like Batwoman, but has shown fewer prominent men on the sexuality spectrum outside of hetero. It's something we need to address. I also think it's lovely how the readers respond to this.
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Fewer
Lovely
Prominent
Sexuality
Spectrum
Men Women Great
Address
Respond
Dc
Women Men Great
Showing
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First, hugely popular and talented romance/dark fantasy author Meljean Brook gives a really deep, wonderful story. She's clearly spent so much time thinking about the world of Sonja and her story in particular, it could easily have been a novel of its own.
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Time Thinking World
Author
Brook
Talented
Hugely
So Much Time
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Leaving a book is hard - 'Secret Six' was a book that people cared about. Even years later, the digital sales are great; the trades and single issues are expensive and highly sought after. It was meaningful to a lot of readers, which is endlessly gratifying.
Gail Simone / Writer
Digital
Expensive
Leaving
Meaningful
Secret
Six
Cared
Endlessly
Gratifying
Highly
Readers
Sales
Sought
Trades
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There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.
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Jobs
Editors
Names
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The first Knightfall story is four issues, and it is extremely focused and intense. People who have read, say, the 'Cats In the Cradle' arc in 'Secret Six' will get some idea of the primal tone of this story. It doesn't let up at all, and it ends in a new place.
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Cradle
Ends
Intense
Primal
Tone
People Will New
Arc
Cats
People New Will
New Place
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What I feel responsible for is, if my name is on a comic, I want it to be the best-written comic that I can possibly do. I want it to include some new things we haven't seen before, new story ideas, new characters. Quality, quality art, all those kinds of things.
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New Things
Include
New Story
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People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a safe place to tell these stories and to reach out to people and maybe affect them and make a difference in their lives.
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Uncomfortable
Fight People New
Affect
Make A Difference
Safe Place
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A lot of action heroes, we're told they are heroic primarily because they commit violence upon the bad guy. It can be cathartic; it can be thrilling. But at some point, I think you want more from your heroes than just the ability and willingness to pummel someone.
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Cathartic
Commit
Heroic
Thrilling
Willingness
Heroes
Bad Guy
Primarily
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Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.
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Editors
Lying
Writing
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The 'Womanthology' book got a lot of people jobs, inside and outside the industry, and I think stuff like that tends to be really effective. You have something in print that you can point an editor or a publisher to, and it makes a huge difference for a lot of people.
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Print
Editor
Effective
Huge Difference
In Print
Publisher
Tends
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The fishnets on Black Canary never bothered me: they fit her character. It's the same for me with the bikini... most people don't wear a lot of clothes in these stories, and it's a big part of what makes her instantly recognizable. Do I want her in a raincoat? Not really.
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Bothered
Clothes
Character Me People
Character Me Black
Big Part
Bikini
Canary
Character Black Me
Instantly
Recognizable
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When I write a team book, it's all about how they relate to each other and what they bring to the team and the book. Whether it's Black Canary and Huntress or Bane and Scandal, I look for a relationship that people can believe in, that they want to follow and learn more about.
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Bane
Relate
Scandal
Canary
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If you love Tarzan, you can read stories from the 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan,' where he's just a kid, all the way up until he has a son of his own and beyond. Same with 'Batman' - you can follow him from Gotham, as a kid, to 'Dark Knight,' as a cranky old weirdo. I really love that.
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Dark
Jungle
Son
Stories
Tales
Weirdo
Batman
Beyond
Read
Follow
Tarzan
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I always look for a story that hasn't been told in the same way. I don't care about a lot of the usual elements people use for a quick drama boost. I want to know, for example, what happens when a man who was victimized by his father tries to be a father to a woman sixty years his senior.
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Boost
Don't Care
Drama
Elements
Example
Senior
Sixty
Usual
For Example
Quick
Tries
Victimized
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I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.
Gail Simone / Writer
Depression
Addiction
Conventions
Grief
Heroism
Illness
Best Great Me
Book Signings
Struggling
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I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.
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Cancer
Fate
Humanity
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For me, even though I love, love, love both Cliff Chiang and Brian Azzarello, I haven't read the new '52 Wonder Woman' past the first issue. It's just... you know, once I'm on a book for a really long time... it's like going through a divorce. It takes a while before I can be 'friends again' with the character.
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Brian
Divorce
Wonder Woman
Love Time Character
Cliff
Really Long Time
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I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have very costly printing and presentation, they lack a purpose, they merely emulate successful comics that already exist... I can't stress this enough. Have something to say.
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Book
Stress
Successful
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Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest.
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Acceptable
Notion
Peaceful
Torture
Unimaginable
Eroded
For Example
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A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an easy, convenient story accelerator, that we missed the sense of having characters have to struggle to discover, to solve mysteries. Famously, it helped make Batman less of a detective and more of a monster hunter.
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Convenient
Editors
Struggle
Accelerator
Batman
Detective
Discover
Helped
Hunter
Missed
Monster
Mysteries
Oracle
Readers
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I looked out into the audience, saw dozens of faces I knew well - LGBTQ folks, mostly - all avid comics readers and superhero fans and DC supporters, and it just hit me: Why was this so impossible? Why in the world can we not do a better job of representation of not just humanity, but also our own loyal audience?
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Avid
Faces
Loyal
Representation
Superhero
Better Job
Dc
Dozens
Supporters
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I try to make every issue new-reader friendly. I remember being frustrated many times trying to pick up new series that were overladen with baggage. The trick is to make that backstory seem like something compelling that they will want to explore rather than an obstacle course they have to crawl through to get to the story.
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Baggage
Compelling
Friendly
Frustrated
Crawl
Explore
Trick
Obstacle
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Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens up the playbook hugely. I have worked with artists I really love, but they may have some small aspect that they hate drawing, or that they don't excel at, and that effectively takes that option off the table.
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Artist
Commitment
Hate
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Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick, who does a wonderful female lead in 'Captain Marvel.' And DC's 'Batwoman' is currently the only book at the Big Two with a lesbian solo lead character, and it's always outstanding.
Gail Simone / Writer
Believable
Book
Character
Country
Female
Female Characters
Lovely
Outstanding
Solo
Two
Wonderful
Always Character I Am
Does
Currently
Fan
Captain
Dc
Lead
Queen
Lead Character
Lesbian
Marvel
Sue
Writes
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I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made world was the brainchild of a monster. I mean, slaves built most of the ancient wonders, our city skylines are dominated by the product of sometimes very ruthless capitalist ideals. There's a horrifying thought that I often wonder, which is, are monsters sometimes necessary?
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Hero
Mean
Writing
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