News Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:59:40 CST Vu

GAIL SIMONE NAMED NEW WONDER WOMAN WRITER
04-12-2007, 08:15 PM

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NRAMA: Of course, that also brings up the issue of you're a woman writing Wonder Woman, the most popular female superhero in the world. When it comes to Wonder Woman, does the writer's gender matter?
GS: No, I think most of the best Wonder Woman writers have been male; Greg Rucka, George Perez, and Phil Jimenez, just to name a few. Not to slight the small handful of females who have written here, they did great work as well.

I don’t know, maybe there’s a bit of life experience that helps, or a different perspective, but I’m never inclined to pigeonhole by things like gender or race. I frankly would just as soon not worry about such things as a reader and a writer. It feels a bit antiquated, to my mind.

When people talk to me about Wonder Woman, they seem to be talking about other things in my writing that they think will suit Diana, more than just the gender thing.