DC Comics writer has ‘super' gig

"At exactly 9:13 Central Time, Sept. 13, 1998,” said Gates, the new writer on DC Comics' "Supergirl” comic-book series.

"Seriously. I had just delivered a monologue that I'd written to a group in my high school's cafeteria. It was a monologue that detailed the exact things I thought and felt when my father passed away, and everything I wanted to tell him at his funeral.”

Gates closed his monologue by asking the crowd to call their fathers and tell them how they felt, because you never know when it might be your last chance.

"After the show, a girl came up to me and told me that because of what I wrote, she was going to talk to her father that weekend for the first time in seven years. She had been so moved by what I'd said, she'd made that decision sitting in that cafeteria listening to me. All because of something I wrote.”

That his writing was able to move another person so deeply made him decide to commit to working as a writer and storyteller.

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