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GAIL SIMONE NAMED NEW WONDER WOMAN WRITER - NEWSARAMA:
Well, I know many people who will be doing an interpretive czardas of great and wondrous joy. (If you can do a czardas of great and wondrous joy, anyway.) Wonder Woman seems to have been badly misused since the relaunch -- effectively, Simone's stint will provide another relaunch, in only issue 13.
What I'm curious about is if the Wonder Woman mission means that Welcome to Tranquility might be officially dead after issue 6. I know that issue 7 has been solicited for June or July; I also know that sales for Tranquility have not been the best, although I don' t know what DC/Wildstorm's expectations for the title were. I hope she's able to continue the title, because it's really pretty good, and worth the read. It's nice to see a black woman as a lead character, especially since she's sort of an ordinary woman within the context of that town. She doesn't seem to have any super powers -- none she uses or that we've seen, anyway -- yet most of the people respect her authority, and most seem to like her.
Speaking to retailers this evening at the Comics Pro Membership Meeting in Las Vegas, DC’s VP – Sales Bob Wayne made the announcement: beginning with issue #13, and going on for the foreseeable future, Gail Simone will write the Wonder Woman series. The news comes with a bit of surprise still attached to it, as clues to Simone’s new writing assignment seemingly began to fall into place last week, when it was announced that she would be leaving Birds of Prey, replaced by Sean McKeever.
[...] NRAMA: You're a busy person given your work, and on top of that, as was made clear last week, you had to give up Birds of Prey, which you loved like tweens love MySpace in order to take this on. What made you do it?
GS: Yeah, as recently as a few months ago, giving up Birds of Prey was simply inconceivable. I still feel I’m not completely done with those characters, as I just adore them. But Birds of Prey was a successful book before I came aboard and it will continue to be after I left. It’s going to sound silly, but look at whose hands I’m leaving the book in, Sean McKeever and Nicola Scott. That is a killer combination.
The thing is, after it really hit me that I was being offered Wonder Woman, I knew I’d have to leave a book, because I’m not doing Diana’s stories in my spare time. This is getting everything I have. It can’t be just another assignment. It has to be damn near a mission...
Well, I know many people who will be doing an interpretive czardas of great and wondrous joy. (If you can do a czardas of great and wondrous joy, anyway.) Wonder Woman seems to have been badly misused since the relaunch -- effectively, Simone's stint will provide another relaunch, in only issue 13.
What I'm curious about is if the Wonder Woman mission means that Welcome to Tranquility might be officially dead after issue 6. I know that issue 7 has been solicited for June or July; I also know that sales for Tranquility have not been the best, although I don' t know what DC/Wildstorm's expectations for the title were. I hope she's able to continue the title, because it's really pretty good, and worth the read. It's nice to see a black woman as a lead character, especially since she's sort of an ordinary woman within the context of that town. She doesn't seem to have any super powers -- none she uses or that we've seen, anyway -- yet most of the people respect her authority, and most seem to like her.