Comments on: Gail Simone Quits Firestorm? Also, Professor Stein Still Alive?

By: Shag

Shag — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:17:43 +0000

Looks like Gail is still writing Firestorm right now! Hooray!

http://firestormfan.com/2011/10/22/gails-still-on-firestorm/

By: Rhett16

Rhett16 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:52:00 +0000

Last night Ethan posted a little note on his Facebook page saying “Me and Gail: We fight, then we get over it.” That was all. A few people asked if that meant she was still on Firestorm, but he never replied.

So, take that for what it is worth.

By: Mark Baker-Wright

Mark Baker-Wright — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:35:36 +0000

My gut tells me that it’s true.

Honestly, while Gail is a great writer, my concern that this is bad news has less to do with her or her writing, but that it is yet another sign that the folks pulling the strings over at DC have botched this re-launch in perhaps every possible way.

The ONE good thing about a Firestorm relaunch was that it gave us the chance to not have Stein dead (still bitter about that part of Brightest Day). Even if this WAS a different Stein….

But if Gail’s gone, all bets are off. Even if HER intention was to have Stein alive, whoever steps in can just ignore that, and Stein might never be mentioned again (let alone show up “dead after all”).

By: Spinks

Spinks — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:08:40 +0000

just heard this… groan…

Looks like Firestorm, version #10, might be coming soon–that is if the book continues..

Sigh..

By: Rhett16

Rhett16 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:49:15 +0000

Ethan posts on Facebook like a madman, and Gail tweets constantly and so far today both of them are completely ignoring any questions about this situation. If it were not true, I would expect at least one of them to post a denial. If it’s true and they are still on good terms with each other and Gail left strictly because of some issue not involving Ethan I would have expected him to post something along the lines of “Best of luck to Gail on future endeavors…..etc”, and/or Gail to post something like “I will miss working with Ethan, but I have decided to focus on other projects….etc”. In this case I have the feeling silence speaks volumes.

By: Rhett16

Rhett16 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:19:18 +0000

Oops, the post was made around 3:00 pm that day, not 6:17, sorry.

(He makes a lot of posts and I was looking at the wrong timestamp)

By: Rhett16

Rhett16 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:18:14 +0000

I can’t link the conversation directly, but if you are a Facebook friend of Ethan Van Sciver, go to his wall posts from Monday. He makes a post at 6:17 pm that begins with the line “Hunter got in trouble again at school….” There are 200 comments or so, and in there you see the back and forth between Ethan, his wife and Gail.

I’m not judging who is right/wrong, but it’s out there on Facebook for all to see.

By: collectededitions

collectededitions — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:09:03 +0000

Have a link to the Facebook conversation, out of curiosity? Hope Simone leaving isn’t true. If she did leave, and Van Sciver did stay on, do you think Firestorm would be the same, or is your sense that Simone is the driving force?

By: Rhett16

Rhett16 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:02:22 +0000

Well, the Bleeding Cool story has removed the question mark from the “Gail Simone Quits Firestorm” headline, so I am afraid this is looking more like truth and less like a rumor. Given the fact that she drops the big Martin Stein reference in this weeks’ Batgirl issue, she obviously had plans for Firestorm so whatever caused her to quit had to have happened pretty recently.

On the bright side, if there is one, is that Stein may end up being alive.

By: Rhett16

Rhett16 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:22:06 +0000

I have no idea what Clevinger is doing right now, but if he is available and they thought enough of him to offer him the book one time I don’t see why they wouldn’t do it again. Or see if that Geoff Johns guy is available, he doesn’t seem to be doing much right now.

Getting back to Simone for a moment, one thing about her that did concern me a little before the Firestorm book even came out was when she said something to the effect of she had turned it down a few times until Ethan convinced her to do it. Honestly, I would have preferred a writer on the book who really wanted to be doing the character and didn’t have to have their arm twisted to write it.

All that being said, I still hope this rumor is untrue.