Rumour: Gail Simone To Announce New Book Or Something

[Outside_85]

Are there any female writers with any buzz nowadays that haven't been snatched up by Marvel? The only females I'm hearing about are artists.

Isnt the only one at Marvel right Marjorie Liu on Astonishing X-Men?


On the subject of sales, I think its a mix of things that makes it sell as well as it is.
Part Gail Simone fans, who will buy whatever she is writing.
Barbara Gordon as Batgirl fans, who's been waiting 20 years for it.
And Barbara Gordon fans in general.

I say this mainly because I dont remember any of those factors either alone or in pairs being very successful commercially, and atm I dont really see the book being considered a critical darling (unlike say, Saga or Azzarello's WW).
But it seems whatever it is that makes this book sell is working.

[shark]

Nice to see you admitting the facts, and I corrected the above for you with the highlighted color, LOL.

All kidding around aside, it's a good day for comics period for readers who are fans of Batgirl, as well as for the power of writers to take the creative directions they want to be free of too much editorial mismanagement/meddling.

Oh yes, a big part reason the sales are so high are because Barb the Dominoed Doll better known as Babsgirl stars the book.

Nice to see you didn't edit out the other reasons.

[Billy Batson]

Isnt the only one at Marvel right Marjorie Liu on Astonishing X-Men?

Kelly Sue DeConnick is writing Captain Marvel.

[toastedbread]

Isnt the only one at Marvel right Marjorie Liu on Astonishing X-Men?


On the subject of sales, I think its a mix of things that makes it sell as well as it is.
Part Gail Simone fans, who will buy whatever she is writing.
Barbara Gordon as Batgirl fans, who's been waiting 20 years for it.
And Barbara Gordon fans in general.

I say this mainly because I dont remember any of those factors either alone or in pairs being very successful commercially, and atm I dont really see the book being considered a critical darling (unlike say, Saga or Azzarello's WW).
But it seems whatever it is that makes this book sell is working.

As someone already noted, Kelly Sue DeConnick is on Captain Marvel and has been for about six months or so? Also Kathryn Immonen just picked up a gig on Journey Into Mystery starring Sif an issue or so ago, though I don't know if that's a limited run or an ongoing gig.

I'm also pretty sure DeConnick just picked up an Avengers book of some description?

So it's a pretty similar situation to DC, numerically. Liu and Simone as long-standing writers, DeConnick and Nocenti holding down multiple books but both fairly recently assigned and Marx and Immonen writing mythic fantasy titles. ;)

I'm probably missing something or someone though...

[Desaad]

Okay, so Batgirl to Gail Simone. Fine. Here's hoping she goes in a more interesting, out there direction, and certainly I would rather she had taken over Suicide Squad, but whatever.

What about Fawkes? WHAT ABOUT FAWKES? I want that guy on something, ASAP. There are a plethora of books that need a new writer, and I want to see him show his stuff.

[LoneNecromancer]

Okay, so Batgirl to Gail Simone. Fine. Here's hoping she goes in a more interesting, out there direction, and certainly I would rather she had taken over Suicide Squad, but whatever.

What about Fawkes? WHAT ABOUT FAWKES? I want that guy on something, ASAP. There are a plethora of books that need a new writer, and I want to see him show his stuff.

Hopefully JLD will build his name a little for now, I guess. But I suppose the fact he was picked to take over shows that someone at the top other than Lemire has faith in him.

[Billy Batson]

Also Kathryn Immonen just picked up a gig on Journey Into Mystery starring Sif an issue or so ago, though I don't know if that's a limited run or an ongoing gig.

Looks like an ongoing gig.

I'm also pretty sure DeConnick just picked up an Avengers book of some description?

Avengers Assemble.

[Desaad]

Hopefully JLD will build his name a little for now, I guess. But I suppose the fact he was picked to take over shows that someone at the top other than Lemire has faith in him.

Indeed. Here's hoping it translates into a job on something that needs it.