Thread by @GailSimone

There are some characters I would like to try writing sometime.

A big one is Supergirl. DC felt they didn’t have a great take on her...I rarely do pitches but they asked, and I wrote what I thought was one of my best ideas ever. I could be biased, but it felt amazing.

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It centered around the idea of a character-defining villain, someone scary af to a Kryptonian orphan. The pitch was so badass, and I really wanted to do it. I wanted to put everything I had on the table to make people see Kara as her own, unique thing.

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I loved Peter David’s run and some others, but this take was going the opposite way, focusing less on the ‘girl’ part, and a bit more on the science fiction and powerhouse elements of the character.

I wanted her to stop questioning herself.

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I feel like sixty years, people get used to that in her history.

But I was using the girl from CoIE as the kernel to build from.

I wanted to have a Kryptonian who really only LOOKED like she fit in here.

It was exciting. And I’ve saved the villain.

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Just in case.

Seriously, I think you would love him/it.

Someday.

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My version of Supergirl is a bullet train.

Let Kal El worry about bigger issues, there’s robots to shred and life to live.

Someday I hope to get to do this. The villain alone will be a game changer.

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I messed up the numbering again, of course.

Anyway, Supergirl, like Iron Man, was never really on my big dream list of characters to write.

But now, she’s a top priority.

Let her be the Fonzie in her own book, I say.

Let her kick ass. Unleash her.

It would work.

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By the way, this was before a reboot so it made no sense to do a big new take and it got waylaid. Reboots work sometimes, but a lot of great stuff gets put in the dumpster that readers never even find out about.