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SIX SECRETS OF THE 'SECRET SIX' WITH GAIL SIMONE
'Wonder Woman' writer Gail Simone delivers a half-dozen things about the upcoming ongoing that you need to know!
By Steve Sunu
Posted 7/14/2008
Ever since their surprising introduction in the pages of Villains United, The Secret Six have garnered attention and popularity. So much so that due to fan appreciation they got their own limited series and they'll have their own ongoing written by super-scribe Gail Simone. Wizard was able to sit down with Simone and get her to reveal six juicy secrets about our favorite villians. To quote Simone herself, "In Secret Six we've got strippers, eggs and violence. What more do you want?"
1. How did the Secret Six ongoing come about?
"Well, it's kind of funny because back before when we were first doing Villains United, if you were going to tell an editor that people would be begging for a Catman series, they would have laughed [Laughs], but as it turns out, that's what happened! At every convention, people are asking me and asking Dan [DiDio] at the panels, "When are we going to see more Secret Six? What's going on with Secret Six??" So, we did the first miniseries to see if the support was going to be there, and it was blast! I loved it!
"Dan wanted to do an ongoing, but I was already committed schedule-wise. Now everybody has the time and everything came together. I really wanted Nicola [Scott] as the artist, so she's finished up her wonderful big array of art and she just did the most amazing Batman—people are going to want to see Nicola's Batman.
"People have just really been asking for [Secret Six] since Villains United."
2. Who's the fifth member of the Secret Six?
"Bane is the fifth member and he begins to develop some very odd feelings for another member of the Secret Six. And we're going to see a side of Bane that no one's ever seen before."
3. What will be the Secret Six's first adventures?
"From the very beginning of the adventure, the Secret Six have to escort a female super villain from San Francisco to Gotham City while being followed by the most murderous, psychotic, evil bastard they've ever faced. He makes Doctor Psycho look like a Care Bear.
"Then, by issue two we have the confrontation that everyone's been dying to see: Catman versus Batman.
"Then, we have a super sexy, evil dark villainess coming up."
4. What's going on with Scandal Savage?
"Scandal is drinking and she is not in good shape and her friends—if you want to call them that—in the Secret Six are trying to figure out how to cheer her up and get her through it and it's not going well. [Laughs] Yeah, she's pretty messed up right now. We'll see how she's handling it and it's not so good."
5. Catman?! Will we be getting more Catman?
"You can look forward to Nicola drawing the sexiest Catman there's ever been! [Laughs] You can tell that she is really into drawing Catman."
6. What will the team dynamic be like for the Secret Six?
"For me, this book is mostly about people who are outsiders. Secret Six is the flipside of Wonder Woman in that all they have is each other. Wonder Woman has all of her sisters from Thymyscara, she's got the Justice League, she's just got tons and tons of people. The Secret Six really just have each other and they're really uncomfortable [knowing] that they have friends.
"It's kind of all the fun conflict that is going on between those relationships and that dynamic. Catman is questioning whether or not he should try to be an actual hero. They don't really want to be friends, it's just that they're stuck together, and even when they try to do something good, it usually turns out horrible in the end. It's just their experiences together—it's a different dynamic, but it's still exploring being in a group and how everyone inter-relates with each other and the different personalities that evolve and carry on through that."
