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@GailSimone

Feb 20

Today is @Dwayne_McDuffie's birthday. He would have been 62 today, if he hadn't passed unexpectedly one day after his 49th birthday.

To me, and most everyone who knew him, Dwayne was a light we all orbited in someway. There are many great creators.

Dwayne was a giant.

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I've told this story before but it can't be overstated. I absolutely would not have this career I love, and this life I love, without Dwayne.

I am far from the only person he lifted up and put on the stairway out. Out of poverty, out of an unfulfilling career.

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You may have heard some or all of this before. But to this day, when I think of Dwayne McDuffie, I am a bundle of terrible and wonderful emotions. I smile at the fact that I got to meet him at all, and then I cry because his loss is so vast, it still seems insurmountable.

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@GailSimone

Jan 28

I don’t dislike the Star Wars sequels at all, I find them pretty antertaining and they did a lot right.

My objection is the things they set up and completely squandered.

Chief among them is Finn, whose story could have been an absolute banger.

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Finn leading a Stormtrooper rebellion, that’s massive, a sea change and a real evolution of ideas that could have expanded the lore tremendously.

But also Poe, his story isn’t even a real story, there’s no arc.

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And the lead characters of the first three films all die with a desperate whimper.

It’s sad because all the elements were there. The set-up is magnificent.

But only the Rey/Kylo story really lands, and it lands by cheating a lot.

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@GailSimone

Jan 2

https://twitter.com/madisoncarter76/status/1742279044643577964

One time at SDCC, Dan DiDio invited me to lunch at a beautiful seafood restaurant on the bay. He had been given a list of properties that WB owned, many of which DC would have had the ability to adapt to comics.

It was STUNNING. I had no idea, I don't think Dan knew, either.

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https://twitter.com/madisoncarter76/status/1742279044643577964

He said that this list could do something for DC that hadn't really been the case in a long time, it could open up a ton of genres with already-popular IP.

Many were very dormant concepts, but many still had active fanbases, and some were huge.

And we could use them.

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So there were a lot of things people know, like MORTAL KOMBAT and the various Bugs Bunny-type things, but the list just went on and on and on, things like the Three Stooges and tons of toy lines and action movie franchises. It was an incredible list.

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@GailSimone

Dec 5, 2023

So, we were getting off the plane in Toronto, and the convention organizer picked us up. He's a lovely fellow, could not have been nicer.

As we were walking to his car, he mentioned that we had been in Montreal recently and had a great time.

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He asked if we liked the city of Montreal and we said absolutely yes.

My husband, @rocketspouse, adds, "However, that was also where we saw the Parade of Dongs."

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@RocketSpouse Which meant, we got out of the Montreal Con one day and there was a large parade of bicyclists, all of which were buck-nekkid nude, top and bottom.

Which was unexpected, and has been the subject of many a good joke since.

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@GailSimone

Nov 27, 2023

Over the past weeks, I have been to events in three very different places, and there are STILL a ton of people whose dream it is to make comics, some of whom seem very talented.

But a lot of them are hesitant to try, dream or not. Can you guess the number one reason why?

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Honest to god, it seemed to be fear of criticism. I'm not making this up, and it does not seem to be a left/right issue. Or a talent issue.

I THINK it's an Imposter Syndrome issue.

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By which I mean that some of the most talented people I spoke to, whose dream is comics, are convinced deep inside that somehow they are not good enough to make it.

So let's talk about it for a second.

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@GailSimone

Nov 3, 2023

I have a short thread about comics. There is lots of not-great stuff to talk about, absolutely.

BUT there is something that I think is absolutely fantastic happening.

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I often talk about my love of comics. It's my favorite medium in the world, I think about and read and make comics pretty much every day and it was my dream job since I was 12 years old.

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However, the thing is, I love COMICS.

It's not about one genre. I love COMICS as a medium, as the tool for a dozen genres.

Humor, fantasy, horror, Western, autobiographical, historic, on and on and on.

And the saddest thing for me as a reader in the past couple decades...
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