gailsimone: therearecertainshadesoflimelight: snappily: ~Action Comics #827  Oh Gail Simone….why were you the most amazing writer for Superman???  I love this arc so freaking much! Sigh. Thank you.  I didn’t know I was going to love writing Superman so much. I just had no idea. But writing Jimmy, and ESPECIALLY Lois and Clark, that was as close to pure fun as I’ve ever had writing comics. Sales went way up, reviews were amazing, but we were just doing nine issues, sadly.  Dan has said he wants me back doing Super-stuff, so it’s a matter of finding the right project that I really want to do. What a joy. Sheesh, I just loved it. I didn’t even know I loved Superman til that point, really. Last SDCC, I was getting ready for a panel and Grant was a surprise guest, and he was backstage, and he suddenly yells out, in that wonderful accent, “GAIL!” and he’s got this huge smile on his face. We’ve always been friends but I never got that reaction before from him, and he grabs me and gives me this huge hug. I’m kind of surprised, Grant’s a wonderful guy but I’ve never seen him do that before, and he says, “I just read your Action run, and IT WAS BRILLIANT!” Then I was REALLY stunned, because All-Star Superman is pretty much my favorite thing ever.  But he sat me down and started telling me how much he loved that collection, that he’d never read it before, and how brilliant it was…he especially loved the Lois and Clark stuff.  I remember him saying, “You wrote their marriage the BEST.”  And we sat and lamented the end of that marriage. It was pretty special.  I’m not saying it to brag, just that it was very remarkable to me that GRANT would discover this short run and be so effusive.  It really meant a lot. When you do these short runs on serial books, you put your heart in it, and you always have this feeling that it’s transitory and will be quickly forgotten, and it can be very sad. I did a four issue Legion story I was very fond of, but because it was right before a relaunch, it’s not been collected and probably never will be. I don’t write stories for my ego, I write stories to be read, you know? So it’s sad to have orphans out there. And it’s always a special delight when a story you think is now pretty much off the radar leaves a nice impression on someone. Especially if it’s the guy who wrote All-Star Superman.  ;) That’s a great story, especially considering that I think Grant has always been against the Lois-Clark marriage. He must have REALLY liked it.

gailsimone:

therearecertainshadesoflimelight:

snappily:

~Action Comics #827

 Oh Gail Simone….why were you the most amazing writer for Superman???  I love this arc so freaking much!

Sigh.

Thank you.  I didn’t know I was going to love writing Superman so much. I just had no idea. But writing Jimmy, and ESPECIALLY Lois and Clark, that was as close to pure fun as I’ve ever had writing comics.

Sales went way up, reviews were amazing, but we were just doing nine issues, sadly.  Dan has said he wants me back doing Super-stuff, so it’s a matter of finding the right project that I really want to do.

What a joy. Sheesh, I just loved it. I didn’t even know I loved Superman til that point, really.

Last SDCC, I was getting ready for a panel and Grant was a surprise guest, and he was backstage, and he suddenly yells out, in that wonderful accent, “GAIL!” and he’s got this huge smile on his face. We’ve always been friends but I never got that reaction before from him, and he grabs me and gives me this huge hug.

I’m kind of surprised, Grant’s a wonderful guy but I’ve never seen him do that before, and he says, “I just read your Action run, and IT WAS BRILLIANT!”

Then I was REALLY stunned, because All-Star Superman is pretty much my favorite thing ever.  But he sat me down and started telling me how much he loved that collection, that he’d never read it before, and how brilliant it was…he especially loved the Lois and Clark stuff.  I remember him saying, “You wrote their marriage the BEST.”  And we sat and lamented the end of that marriage.

It was pretty special.  I’m not saying it to brag, just that it was very remarkable to me that GRANT would discover this short run and be so effusive.  It really meant a lot.

When you do these short runs on serial books, you put your heart in it, and you always have this feeling that it’s transitory and will be quickly forgotten, and it can be very sad. I did a four issue Legion story I was very fond of, but because it was right before a relaunch, it’s not been collected and probably never will be. I don’t write stories for my ego, I write stories to be read, you know? So it’s sad to have orphans out there.

And it’s always a special delight when a story you think is now pretty much off the radar leaves a nice impression on someone.

Especially if it’s the guy who wrote All-Star Superman.  ;)

That’s a great story, especially considering that I think Grant has always been against the Lois-Clark marriage. He must have REALLY liked it.