American - Writer | July 29, 1974 -
'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like DC, and I love the DC Universe. It's a source of never-ending joy to me.
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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.'
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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.
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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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I just like to write stories about people who survive even very difficult, impossible things.
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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.
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I feel humanity is often displayed in how we react to our mistakes and the misdeeds committed against us.
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