Gail Simone:S/D

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(both this and the BKV are basically just "I know 20% about these writers, tell me more!)

S: Agent X and presumably the Deadpool run that Agent X came out of.

D: No idea. I've been giving Birds of Prey a miss because I associate it with being rubbish, and by Chuck Dixon. And I understand that Villians United is pretty good so far, but carries a stamp of "shit crossover will break your heart"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 June 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Also is she the highest profile female writer right now?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 10 June 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

ACTION COMICS!!!!! I think I said this on another thread, but: her first two issues (newest issue OUT NOW) are the best Superman books I've read in the past year+ (if you're looking for that sort of thing).

Also, Andrew - have you actually read Birds of Prey? It's super good as well, especially now w/ Joe Bennett on the art!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 June 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes I totally agree, I never used to read the Chuck dixon BoP either - it pretty much made a clean break when she came on board.

also you are willing to read Deadpool and god knows who wrote that before Gail! (probably R0b L13f13ld!)

― Mark C (Markco), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

The some of the writers that preceded Ms. Simone on Deadpool:

Mark Waid (he wrote the first mini!)
Joe Kelly
Christopher Priest
Buddy Scalera & Frank Tieri (ummm...)

So, y'know, not too shabby a group (tho I think Kelly's the only one that did as well as GS did) (Dang the Perry's Italian Sausage - or anyone else - would know better than me on that).

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Her message board presence is the size of Kahndaq.

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I think she IS the highest profile female writer at the moment, yeah. Who else? All I can think of are Carla Speed McNeil (who draws but doesn't write books other than her own, right?) and, um, whoever wrote Persepolis.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah - GS is definitely the highest-profile spandex writer. Everyone else (I can think of) of equal or greater stature is working the indie / mainstream angle.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

There are lots of high profile indie women - Roberta Gregory, Julie Doucet etc - she is the most high profile "big 2" female writer I can think of at the mo - what is Louise Simonson up to these days?

GS made her start writing a comedy column on CBR and is presumably loyal to her roots because of that

― Mark C (Markco), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Devin Grayson a woman?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but she's decidedly low profile nowadays.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Writing Nightwang and nothing else'll do that.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Is Ann Nocenti still around?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

She just had a 2-issue Deeeluxe Bat / Cat mini published last year, but that's it in terms of comic work. I think she's involved in book publishing or magazine editing or some sorta nerdfest like that.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

There's a lady drawing the upcoming Power Girl titty mag.

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that every Power Girl mag?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Mark Waid (he wrote the first mini!)

For shame, dude. Fabian Nicieza, DP's co-creator, wrote the first mini, as well as Cable and Deadpool and the old X-Force stories. Mark wrote the mondo average 2nd mini.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

SHAME

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 11 June 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Her run on Action Comics has been pretty great. Conclusion to the first story was hampered by tie-in-itis, but it's a fun Superman book. Byrne's art works well and it actually makes me want to rummage through my copies of his 80s run again.

But, golly, imagine that. A fun superhero book...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

Maybe she'll take over the Flash?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Matt, I'm going to whack you with the Anti-Fun Stick if you give out backhanded complements like that again. (Please note that I might whack you w/ said stick just because.)

No offense to GS, but DARWYN COOKE all the way, mang. He can do that & The Spirit @ the same time, right? Yeah, sure. Hey Darwyn! If you need any Red Bull, holla!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Well, but Cooke's only going to be writing the Flash (for one arc), which is like asking for a sundae and just getting chocolate sauce and peanuts.
I'm tired of my favourite artists doing more writing than drawing, dangit. I want Dave Gibbons drawing GL: Recharge, David Lapham drawing Detective (though, I should shamefully admit that he wasn't even on my radar until I read his writing on Detective), and Dan Slott should be drawing She-Hulk. Okay, probably not.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I saw Darwyn in conversation -- he says his doing 1-issue stories, happy endings, and lots of alternate universe stuff. ("No one gets raped," he said.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, Darwyn, get over it. You had implied rape in DC: TNF and you damn well know it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

The next creator that drops the NO RAPE line gets the gasface and my copies of Chuck Austen's Captain America run.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

As long as it's "No Fun" Stooges stylee, David.

I'd love love love it if Dawryn Cooke got to do Superman, but that ain't gonna happen. If nothing else, but for an antidote to the Scowling Superman Covers we've been subjected to for the last year or more it seems.

And my, but there's another thread derailed...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

The next creator that drops the NO RAPE line gets the gasface

you want more rape in superhero comics?

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, kit, by showing frustration w/ writers and artists constantly bringing up the rape issue, that means I want more rape in my comics.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty happy to be warned off it, you know? Not that I read a lot of corporate comics - Grant Morrison is probably responsible for over 70% of my purchases there in the last decade - but I do find it pretty appalling that people find these characters appropriate to tell stories about rape and murder and personal betrayal. The Justice League currently have a saturday morning kiddies' cartoon in America AFAIK, and I think there's a baffling disconnect between using the characters in that venue at the same time as they're being treated the way they are in Infinite Identity Countdowns. Mainly because the former makes sense - they ARE kids' characters, and it just seems deadeningly pointless to try and make them more profound or relevant to the adults that read them by having their wives kill each other and get raped, and to retcon giant lightbulb traps by lobotomising villains and then setting them loose to commit more crimes but in a goofy manner...

Haven't seen anyone bar Cooke and Ellis announce that no-one's getting raped in their runs, though. But I do like the fact that they find the fact that major crossover storylines are being predicated on superhero-wife-rape SO COMPLETELY STUPID (AND/OR OFFENSIVE) that they want to announce that it won't be going on in their series, just as a way of off-handedly denouncing it.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I still think this is just as funny as it was when I was 14, you know?

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/72760981648.37.gif

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Re: Darwyn, he said it during a seminar on comics writing at the Toronto comics fest a couple weeks back. (FYI, I also heard Cameron S. say he had 1/2 the script for Seaguy 2, and loved it, but no one was ever going to commision it.)

(When asked a question about how to liven up boring conversation scenes in comics, Darwyn said "My advice is, always set conversation scenes in an abandoned fairground. It's much better that way.")

It's true, kids. Anyway... Gail Simone...

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah!
S: her parody interviews on Usenet
D: pretty much everything since, I guess

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Tranquility! A creator-owned series! About a superhero retirement community! By Ms. Simone & Neil Googe! Coming in December!

HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

HI DERE!
Amazing Randy/Randi CAMEO in ANA #5!!!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/search.php?searchid=2273966

she really hates this rick olney guy

― chaki, Monday, 12 March 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be, too, if I did work for someone & didn't get paid for a long-ass time.

― David R., Monday, 12 March 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah but its silly to have a 1000+ post thread on: rick olney band why are they so bad and hated?

― chaki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

theorem: CBR messboard posters not most organised, self-aware cookies in jar
extra theorem: anyone who'd work for Olney in first place not exactly steering life with good map

― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

simone's message board reminds me of the UK WATERCOOLER

― chaki, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

So Simone's leaving BOP, McKeever's coming in, and N'rama article where Simone talks about how proud she is to have written an uncliched ladycomic has a google ad for "sexy girls at the beach".

― Dr. Superman, Saturday, 7 April 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

Is odd that perhaps her safest, bankable comic (and one she is best known for) is the one she would drop. Surely she would wriggle out of Gen 13 or The Atom!

So is it WW or JLA?

― Pete, Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Both will be available soon, and there's language in the McKeever interview on N'rama that makes me think he's taking the All-New Atom too.

― Dr. Superman, Sunday, 8 April 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

For one flickering moment, I thought maybe GS was gonna do the Green Arrow/Black Canary book, but that's unlikely.

― Dr. Superman, Sunday, 8 April 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda hope GS returns to Action Comics! But with a better artiste!

― David R., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently Simone is going over to Wonder Woman after Picoult leaves. Replacement Choice: S/D?

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=108610

― Mordechai Shinefield, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

Well that kills my interest in continuing with Wonder Woman after Picoult's story is over. It's for the best, probably.

― Mr. Perpetua, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

This probably isn't the thread for it, but I wasn't particularly in love with Picoult's story anyway.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

I became interested in GS after reading an interview with her in Comics Journal in which she came across as a nice person... but I still have this niggling suspicion that her comics are not all that.

I think the only thing I have read by her is the one in which Superman sorts out Africa, and it was the usual DC Emo bollocks, with added whitey guilt. Not really my thing, I fear.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

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