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Today, as we pointed out on Friday, is the Final Order Cut-Off date for Lion Forge's relaunche of the Catalyst Prime line, now showrun by Gail Simone, with lead title Catalyst Prime: Seven Days #1 by Simone and Jose Luis Intended to be published in July, the seven issue series was severely delayed by three[...]

Can Scooby and the gang stop the giant and save the gym? Plus, these reprint tales: o "Tiki Taboo Trouble," from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #48 o "A World in Creep's Clothing," from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #48 o "Out of Line," from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #51 o "Over the Boardwalk," from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #54 o "I Want[...]

Gail Simone has a Writer's Commentary on her new series, Death-Defying 'Devil #1, on sale now from Dynamite Entertainment. Hello, all! It's possibly not a well-kept secret that I am a huge fan of the pulps and pulp-like characters In the early days of Western comics, many of the superheroes bore more of a resemblance to comic[...]

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Comic book writer Gail Simone posted the news to Twitter and Facebook- that she has written an upcoming episode of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic! She writes, It was so ridiculously fun, from start to finish I am so grateful to Hasbro, Nicole Dubuc (the genius who helped me so much), and the fabulous artists[...]

Dynamite Entertainment has announced they are publishing a new Death Defying 'Devil comic book, written by Gail Simone, drawn by Walter Geovanni, colored by Adriano Augusto, lettered by Simon Bowland and edited by Kevin Ketner Inspired by Rod Serling, Bronze Age horror/mystery anthologies, and modern street-level heroics, the new series launching in August. The 'Devil finds[...]

Comics super-star Gail Simone took to Twitter this morning to praise the new Shazam! movie, and what makes the Marvel Family different from just about every other batch of heroes out there. Okay I have a thing to say, it'll take a little bit and I'll try not to post anything too spoilery But[...]

Vampirella is getting a exclusive comic book story in the new issue of Playboy Magazine, by Gail Simone and Joyce Chin for the character's 50th anniversary. Arranged for Playboy's Spring 2019 Freedom of Speech issue available now, the six-page story colored by Addison Duke and lettered by Taylor Esposito, will tell a story about Vampirella protecting[...]

Written by Gail Simone with art by José Luís, Seven Days will be a seven-issue series that a press release says "will unite the heroes of the CPU for seven issues that count down the days of a week that may be the final one in the history of humanity." Probably not though, because if it's the[...]

Gail Simone and David Baldeon's Domino series has been a highlight of Marvel's X-books, so we were personally sad to learn that it would end with January's Domino #10 However, the series returns this week as Domino: Hotshots, a 3-issue mini-series which expands Domino's team of mercs to include Black Widow, White Fox, Atlas Bear,[...]

The publisher took another step in the right direction by announcing that Tony Stark: Iron Man will crossover with War of the Realms in May, from the guest creative team of Gail Simone and Paolo Villanelli. Marvel media partner CBR had the EX-X-XCLUSIVE reveal in an interview with Simone, who refused to spoil the contents of the[...]

Sure, Trump was president, everyone hated each other on social media, The Outhouse shut down, and there were no new episodes of Doctor Who all year, but who could've imagined it would get so much worse? It all started when that damn Gail Simone began asking junk food franchises on Twitter which comic book company they[...]

Wendy's was asked by famous comic book writer and tea expert Gail Simone which comic book universe they preferred, and the chain didn't hesitate to respond: Marvel. Marvel — Wendy's (@Wendys) February 7, 2019 The news that the social media savants who run Wendy's Twitter account prefer Marvel to DC is sure to be a major blow for[...]

Writers and comics creators such as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Fiona Staples, Gail Simone, and Rumiko Takahashi took Maher to task for his simplistic views on comics' history of challenging social norms and political movements. Simone summed up what she saw were Maher's intentions on Twitter: Here's a thing, even if you don't care about[...]

Remember the days of big, giant Marvel and DC Comics crossover events? We sure do, as does Gail Simone. One of our favorite female comic writers, Simone knows her way around some pretty notable characters across the Marvel and DC Comics lexicon: DC's Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Welcome to Tranquility, The All-New Atom, Deadpool, Wonder Woman,[...]

Earlier today, we reported on superstar writer Gail Simone's Twitter teaser for a new project called Hotshots And it's a good thing we did it then, because if we had waited, we wouldn't have only been able to get one article out of it instead of two, because Marvel has just answered Simone's question and[...]

Not all teasers need to threaten to rewrite the history of a decades-old superhero universe! Superstar writer Gail Simone looks to be teasing a new comic book project on social media, posting the following logo on Twitter and asking the question: who are the Hotshots? WHO ARE THE… pic.twitter.com/IzWG2TfW6Z — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) December 10, 2018 No other[...]

The latest definitely-not-porn content flagged as explicit by Tumblr algorithms is a story from the Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special by Gail Simone, Colleen Doran, Hi-Fi Design, and Dave Sharpe called Big Things One Day Come, introducing the character Star Blossom. Simone took to Twitter for the reveal: So Tumblr tagged a story of mine as explicit (well, a[...]

Sometimes Twitter is a wonderful place, thanks to personalities like Gail Simone. Photo by Kendall Whitehouse Today, the comic book writer took to her characters to describe her pitch for a film: The Oz/Wonka war. Okay, here's my idea. THE OZ/WONKA WAR. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) November 30, 2018 Slugworth allies with the Wicked Witch of the West to capture Dorothy and[...]

And in Fantastic Four Wedding Special #1, superstar writer Gail Simone will join Fantastic Four series writer Dan Slott Sara Pichelli won't be drawing this one either, but Laura Braga will instead. Check out the solicits for Fantastic Four #5 and Fantastic Four Wedding Special #1 below. FANTASTIC FOUR: WEDDING SPECIAL #1 GAIL SIMONE & DAN SLOTT (W)[...]

In a shining example that the rest of the world can hopefully follow suit, Gail Simone and Rob Schneider have ended their blood feud over whether or not Tim Hortons is the Rob Schneider of donut shops It was Schneider who made the first move, tweeting a public apology to Simone. https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1038576315966705664 And Simone accepted the apology,[...]

File this one under "news we swear to freaking god we are not making up." Comedian and actor Rob Schneider, star of such hit films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, became offended on Twitter Saturday after randomly coming across a tweet by superstar comics writer Gail Simone using Schneider's name to mock Canadian donut chain[...]

The book continues to look fantastic. Red Sonja/Tarzan #4 is another solid issue from Gail Simone, Walter Geovani, and Adriano Augusto The final battle is prepped, the characters move into place, and we know the odds standing against Red Sonja and Tarzan This one earns a recommendation Check it out. [rwp-review-ratings id="0"] [rwp-review-form id="0"] [rwp-review-recap id="0"] The gorillas look[...]

Gail Simone has a Writer's Commentary on the recently released Red Sonja/Tarzan #4, on sale now from Dynamite She writes: Okay, I again want to thank everyone who has been following this book and reading my little commentaries We don't always get to focus on these little details, but they're a big part of what makes[...]

Rather, it's superstar writer Gail Simone vs… Miracle Whip?! Responding to a recent viral PhillyMag.com article lamenting that millennials have killed egg-based sandwich topping mayonnaise, one in a long line of ridiculous articles on various publications where baby boomers and gen-xers complain that the things they liked are no longer as popular as they once were with younger[...]

Elsewhere, Sammy tries to solve his woes, and the girls who work with Eel O'Brian work to prove his innocence. Plastic Man #3 cover by Alex Ross Whenever I worry that maybe I just have a thing against superhero comedy stories, I remind myself that Gail Simone and Adriano Melo's Plastic Man just might be one of[...]

It's Gail Simone's birthday today Happy Birthday, Gail. As she knuckles down as creative lead for Catalyst Prime at Lion Forge, she also reminisced on Facebook about her time at Bongo Comics, the first comics publisher to hire her, for The Simpsons — and then proceeded to give her as much work as she could handle. The publisher,[...]

Plastic Man is Gail Simone's other attempt at a book like this right now, and it's currently running a lot more smoothly. Domino #4 art by David Baldeon and Jesus Aburtov David Baldeon's artwork gels mostly well in this issue The panel-dressing and creativity attributed to the training session with Shang is genuinely cool The facial expressions[...]

Plastic Man is on the hunt for a young boy while being chased by a clandestine organization and avoiding Batman. Is it a good read?

The term "Women in Refrigerators" was coined in 1999 by Gail Simone to recognize how women characters are treated in comic books It specifically refers to how they are often harmed, murdered, raped, abused in order to provide motivation for a male lead character to seek revenge The term was named after the comic book scene[...]