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Tag Archives: Comic Books
Influential
How about a special Friday post? One of the reasons I don’t like being considered a silly writer is that it lowers the bar. Silly is fine, but it’s just a trifling thing. It will always be considered unimportant. And to some degree that’s to my advantage. If someone reads a story of mine with [...]
Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies, games Also tagged Aliens, Amanda Waller, Comic Book Superheroes, Dc Comics, Disappointment, Diversity, Evil Clowns, Excuse, Expectation, Fiction Writers, Free Reign, Funny Costumes, Notion, Outright Hostility, Strange Humor, Supermodel, Universe, Weird Situations 10 Comments
Diversity Matters
Quick. Name all the wheelchair-bound protagonists you can. No cheating now. Just off the top of your head. Me? I’ve got Ironsides and Oracle. Oh, wait. Scratch that second one. Now name all the overweight minority characters in positions of authority in fiction. There’s Amanda Waller from DC Comics . . . or at least [...]
Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Movies, Writing Also tagged Amanda Waller, Consequences, Dc Comics, Diet, Dislikes, Diversity, Ironsides, Long Time, Male Protagonist, Minority Characters, Nitpicks, Oracle, Reboot, Shoulders, Size 6, Sole Representatives, Wheelchair 2 Comments
Chasing Zany
Did you ever notice that nuclear bombs are either destroying the planet or saving it? I watched a movie called Crack in the World recently, and a bomb starts a chain reaction that causes a (SPOILER ALERT) crack in the world. It’s only by exploding a bigger bomb that they can stop it from tearing [...]
Posted in Blog, Writing Also tagged Albatross, Assumption, Backseat, Blogging, Bomb, Brain Candy, Card Games, Chain Reaction, Chasing The Moon, Crack, Curse, Dinosaurs, Ego, Fluff, Nuclear Bombs, Rewarding Experience, Robots, Self Improvement, Spoiler 5 Comments
The Invulnerable Man Rule