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it does sound like saying you weren't reading nightwing/that you didn't read #93 may have been a misstatement? my understanding from how you've talked about your close friendship with her at that time on tumblr and the identical text in bop #76 and nw #100 is that you were coordinating the books?

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it was somewhat odd to me to see that at a time when grayson was being heavily criticized for this statement, you were distancing yourself from her, when the statement was specifically regarding her interview with you. but that's less weird if you forgot about this interview!

and grayson's much-quoted "For the record, I've never used the word “rape,” I just said it was nonconsensual" line was actually regarding her correcting *your* statement that the rape scene was "part of dick's love/sex life"; she replied "that particular moment was actually not consensual."

She humanized Batman, but she also wrote Tarantula raping Nightwing, then handled it very poorly. She doesn't seem to know the definition of rape, either. "For the record, I’ve never used the word...

that's helpful to know, thank you! i was surprised to read this interview text honestly, because you said in 2012 that you weren't reading many comics at the time and never read the nightwing issue you're asking grayson about in this interview (gailsimone.tumblr.com/post/3246382...)

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APE IN A CAPE

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here is the complete text for anyone interested!

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!! i just found it actually!! web.archive.org/web/20040618... it's listed as being from july 2004 on grayson's old author site but was actually published 6/15/2004! so i was scrubbing the wrong month's captures on wayback machine

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Wayback Machine

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in comics that i've read so far. and yeah i'm devastated about her firing as someone who got into comics only a few years ago, it's crazy to go from these years of fantastic work from her and then like... bruce jones nightwing. lol. we lost potentially decades of work from her

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the aftermath of the rape was written SO well! she really effectively fused the murder with the rape to frame both as deeply violating events, and even with her saying she was getting micromanaged by editorial starting with #94, i think she wrote easily one of the most humanizing depictions of rape

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she's pretty intensely hated online in fandom spaces in particular and i'm trying to put together a record of how that started and untangle and accurately describe why the (very largely unfair, imo) criticism of her is so uniquely charged with misogyny when compared to male writers.

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i'm a big fan of her work and trying to compile some of her interviews that were lost over the years! i'm also interested in this interview from a history of women in comics perspective, since it seems to have been the origin point of much of the 2010s-era fandom "controversy" around nightwing #93

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wrote the interview questions or if they were given to you? would it have been a text interview over email? apologies for the random questions, i'm just hoping to narrow some things down as i try to recover it! <33

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it might have been part of a "pros on pros" series or something like that? i'm trying to compile a comprehensive history of her nightwing run and interviews related to it (i'm a huge fan of it) and this interview is eluding me. do you recall ever interviewing her, and if so, do you remember if you

hi gail! speaking of women creators, do you recall a july 2004 interview on comicon's the pulse with wonderful batman writer devin grayson regarding her nightwing run? it would have been around the publication of nightwing #93 and titled something like "GAIL SIMONE & DEVIN GRAYSON TALKING NIGHTWING"

FreyaSlayer @freyaslayer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Me and that one plushie every night

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Boosting this! There are three laid-off Paizo workers who are crowdfunding for survival funds while they look for work. Links below, give them some love. 🔗

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Dr. VIXX Cuddle Sofa @vixxsofa.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Yeah exactly

And why oh why is it always the language of inevitability and possessiveness? Nobody who’s this insistent, aggressive and violative with their language of “it’s here and if you don’t adopt it you’re stupid and dead” has ever been right about anything. Nobody this desperate, insistent and forceful has ever had good intentions, good vibes or brought good omens — they are always bearers of some kind of con.

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EXCELLENT ISSUE GODDDDD <333333 WATTERS COWAN AND COMPANY ARE DOING IT THEYRE DOING IT THEYRE BRINGING HIM BACK WE ARE SO BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

i'm sold on the opening narration now btw, the lighter (but still reasoned, intelligent, and deeply compassionate) voice he gives dg in the car scene contrasted with his batman-like interior is an excellent characterization choice

so it didn't really feel like watters! because he couldn't do much while he was busy powerwashing taylor's stink off the character and the setting! but this IS very very watters and i love itttt even a few pages in

i obviously have been caping for watters since like 2024, i loved sword of azrael and was really excited to see him announced on nw, and the biggest disappointment for me with watters/soy was that it was coming off taylor so watters had to spend so much fucking time fixing what taylor broke

urban supernatural/urban horror well + can write a killer batman comic. this is already feeling much more like the samsara arc in grayson's gotham knights than like idk, urban fantasy werewolves or whatever worst case scenario people were assuming

i saw a lottt of people criticizing this run in advance (as we loathsome comics fans do with everything) for being "too supernatural" and basically sounding like it's going to be too much of a dan watters run. which frankly i didn't agree with to begin with, watters has more than proven he can do

GREAT DG VOICE, GREAT ART TEAM!! i'm loving these panel layouts and composition choices, feels both comicky and cinematic

big improvement on the dg face in this run, not a fan of the super wide chin from some angles but overall i feel like this looks much more like my boy than soy's style does. reminds me of some of the post-hester/park artists on nw '96 (makes sense coming from cowan)

STUNNING colors, so glad they have segala on this, captures both the weird beauty of cities/highways and the like disturbing unnatural displacement of the city by the superhighway

this reads more like bruce than dg to me but not in a bad way. they are very similar people at their cores and they are more alike in their views of their cities than they are different. i missed you nightmobile. colors and lines are gorgeous, love dg's stringy unmaintained hair

"nightwing would never do the thing that defined his two most influential and substantial solo runs ever written" cameo appearance for tt

liveblogging nw #136 (will write up an actual review/impressions post for tumblr later, just initial thoughts here)

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battlefield medicine #sladick barracks bunny au :) more up on patreon

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dgptsd ☀️ @arazni.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

basically why you will see my wretched visage for a few days here until tumblr either reverts its changes or it calms down enough that the site loads more than 4 posts at a time for me

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dgptsd ☀️ @arazni.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

SAMEEEE <333 it literally looks so good already in the preview and the colors are perfect.. i love what watters said about the inspo for the arc being his european horror at moving to the us and seeing our evil road systems lol #real

dgptsd ☀️ @arazni.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

they are releasing nightwing (2016) #136 for me tomorrow. because they love me.