I've always said my whole career that I wanted to write by the improv credo, 'don't negate,' which means, even if you didn't care for something, you try to make it work. You don't say, 'Oh, that particular story didn't happen.' Gail Simone More Quotes by Gail Simone More Quotes From Gail Simone 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. Gail Simone me black character people People who are exposed to great Wonder Woman stories love her. You have to do your best work and get it out there so people can experience it. Gail Simone best you work love I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so much as their dating website wishlist. Gail Simone say dating writing character When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or a writer who appealed to guys. This need to categorize was just exhausting. Gail Simone me women trying people 'Batgirl' and 'Harley Quinn' are the first DC hit books in a while that aren't starring Batman personally, really. But some of the attempts to reach the female audience have been really depressing to me. Gail Simone reach some me audience My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either. Gail Simone never-give-up never win always I have a terrific editor in Molly Mahan - she's the best - and Red Sonja has become up there with Black Canary as my favorite character to write, ever. Gail Simone best red black character I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times. Gail Simone me red politics character I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much. Gail Simone never myself i-can love I like DC, and I love the DC Universe. It's a source of never-ending joy to me. Gail Simone me universe joy love As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction. Gail Simone think time adventure death 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. Gail Simone story problem struggle easy I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers. Gail Simone i-feel-like feel place like I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things. Gail Simone survive difficult impossible people 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 humanity hero people world I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us. Gail Simone react mistakes feel humanity I have been involved in lots of crossover and event books, and the truth is, I dearly love them. I love stories that actually take advantage of the huge DC library and catalog - that stuff thrills me. Gail Simone me library truth love If you succeed at all, you find yourself suddenly working with artists whose work you don't just admire but you deeply love. Gail Simone yourself you work love 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. Gail Simone me time love character
