
Her column You'll All Be Sorry! appeared weekly on Comic Book Resources. The site brought her into contact with many people working in the comics industry. The site's purpose was to analyze how female characters are written so as to suffer traumatic indignities, a plot device to advance the narrative of male characters. Ī former hairdresser who studied theater in college, Simone first came to public notice through Women in Refrigerators, a website founded in 1999 by comics fans in response to a scene in Green Lantern #54, in which the titular hero's girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, was murdered and her corpse shoved in a refrigerator for the hero to find. Gail Simone was born and raised in Oregon. Her work has been nominated for a number of awards including the GLAAD Media Award, and she is the recipient of a 2017 San Diego Comic Con Inkpot Award. She enjoyed a long-running stint on The Simpsons comics, and has also written for television and video games. Other notable works include Clean Room, Secret Six, Welcome to Tranquility, The All-New Atom, and Deadpool.

Unlike most horror comics, which drown the page in ink and shadows, Davis-Hunt offers us bright, clear figures drawn in light pencils with bright colors and some rather neat lighting effects in the color art.Gail Simone (aka Gladys Simonetti) is an American writer best known for her work in comics on DC's Birds of Prey, Batgirl, Dynamite Entertainment's Red Sonja, and for being the longest running female writer on Wonder Woman to date. I can also say that Jon Davis-Hunt's artwork is wonderful. While I can't say exactly where this comic is going, I can say that Gail Simone is giving us one hell of a ride taking us there. Summarizing the story without giving away spoilers is increasingly difficult, for this revolutionary story defies easy classification. Now, as her underlings go into full damage control mode and work to save their boss' business, journalist Chloe Pierce has her own strange encounter with a seemingly demonic creature.įive issues in and I'm still not quite sure what to make of Clean Room. Because she's finally captured the entity that attacked her as a child. Self-help guru Astrid Mueller's empire is in danger of crumbling, following the public suicide of her most famous patient.
