ABOUT COMICS COLLECTS GAIL SIMONE'S YOU'LL ALL BE SORRY

[MattBrady]

Press Release

Gail Simone promises You'll All Be Sorry in August

The entire comics community will rue the day they entertained Gail Simone when she unleashes You'll All Be Sorry!, a collection of her hilarious prose pieces. Featuring a mixture of classic entries culled from her popular online column and brand new pieces, this About Comics paperback will delight Simone's growing legion of fans.

Behind a Scott Shaw! cover, readers will find dozens of articles as Simone turns her sharp wit on Wizard, Watchmen, Whiteout, bad Batman fan fiction, and even the Internet itself. This was the work that launched her comics writing career, leading to her writing first for Bongo, then for Marvel and now DC, where she has gained acclaim for her runs on such books as Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, and her original series Welcome to Tranquility.

In addition to the original pieces that Simone built her career on, the book features original articles, including the revelatory "How to Write Comics (with food and boobs) the Gail Simone Way!" Readers will also be invited to "Choose Your Own Crossover," and Gail has also blackmailed a bunch of her pro friends into crafting an all new set of "Condensed Comics Classics". Each piece is being freshly laid out to reflect the material being parodied, and many come with illustrations.

"People have been asking for this book for years," explains Simone, "and I am grateful and delighted that it's finally being published and put together with such care by the amazing Nat Gertler. All my favorite You'll All Be Sorry columns are in there, along with some new material not available anywhere else. It's definitely the publishing event of the century, if not of all time. This is the book that finally validates English as an actual language and humans as a species. Also, it makes fun of Batman; I suggest you purchase multiple copies immediately!"

You'll All Be Sorry! (ISBN 978-0-9790750-5-6) is a 160-page comics-sized trade paperback, priced at $11.99 US, published by About Comics. The book will be solicited to the comics market in the June issue of Diamond Comic Distributors's Previews catalog, and will also be available to the bookstore market through Diamond Book Distributors.

[rwe1138]

Awesome. I'm definitely getting this.

[weaselwelch]

I will have to pick this up for sure.

[wishlish]

I'm in. Gail's not only one of the best writers in comics, but one of the best people.

[Jason Seaver]

All over this.

[Pseudoderm]

Buying this is a no-brainer! I'm going to reserve my copy next week!

Gail's run on Birds of Prey is one of my favorite runs on any book. (It helps that BoP was already my favorite comic thanks to the brilliant Mr. Dixon...Gail just made it even sweeter!)

Now if we only had a start date for the new Secret Six ongoing...!

[newfoundma]

Awesome. I've never read these, so I am really looking forward to it as a huge fan of so much of her work.

[Mercer]

This makes me insanely happy. YABS was one of the very, very best of all comics columns. I'm so happy to see it collected I could absolutely plotz.

[rockieman]

Originally Posted by newfoundma

Awesome. I've never read these, so I am really looking forward to it as a huge fan of so much of her work.

Here's a link to the YABS archive at CBR.

[apoehler]

This is some of my favorite of Simone's work, and new stuff too, including Condensed Comics Classics? Sold.

[Lex]

This worries me. Gail Simone has mastered comics and blogging and now is adding a book to her growing empire of awesomeness. Now she only needs to publish beer-stained napkins and she will have conquered all of written media. Is there nothing that can stop her?!!!

I, for one, am patiently waiting for the day I can get "I Gail" tatooed on my brain, so I'm greatly looking forward to this book. Yay!

[johnseavey]

Hate to add a mindless, simplistic, "SWEET! Me too!" to this, but my reaction to this article is...

SWEET!

And my reaction to all the other people saying they'll buy this as soon as it comes out is...

Me too!

[Vysions]

I have placed an order for this with my local comic shop. Gail Simone rocks.