Tag Archives: Obstacle

Flawed

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 18, 2011

A flawed character is not the same thing as a damaged or negative character. In fact, a character can be good and noble and nearly perfect and still suffer from a flaw that keeps his stories interesting. I think of Superman as a perfect example. Superman is a flawed character. His flaw is his unflinching [...]

Posted in Blog, Comic Books, Writing | Also tagged Absolute Desire, Batman, Hero, Hostage Situation, Maverick Cop, Missing The Point, Mistake, Moral Center, Moral Code, Morality, Negative Quality, Nothing But A God, Protagonist, Protagonists, Superman | 3 Comments

Weird Tales

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: June 29, 2011

Sent Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain off to begin the copy editing process. The publishing business works on a long timeline, and it won’t be out until sometime next year. I won’t talk too much about it at this point other than to say it’s the story of a supervillain from Neptune who is [...]

Posted in Blog, Writing | Also tagged Annoyance, Brain, Business Works, Copy Editing, Doc Savage, Emperor, Exoskeletons, Finishing Touches, Foe, Genetics, Hard Time, Inha, Mollusk, Neptune, Nutshell, Pulp, Sol System, Spine, Superman Lex Luthor, Supervillain, Target, Weird Tales, Wrath | 10 Comments

The Gary Daniels Digression

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: August 23, 2010

Watched The Expendables. Decent flick. Not great, but not without its charms. But it’s guilty of one very big sin. It’s a sin that we can no longer ignore. Why the hell does every action movie need to shake the camera like it’s being filmed on the back of an old pickup truck being driven over [...]

Posted in Blog | Also tagged Camera Center, Charms, Decent Flick, Digression, Dirt Road, Dolph Lundgren, Edgar Wright, Gary Daniels, Giant Robot, James Cameron, Jet Li, Jump Cuts, Martial Artists, New Language, Pickup Truck, Puta, Scott Pilgrim, Stallone, Storyteller | 1 Comment

Media-to-Media

By A. Lee Martinez | Published: April 27, 2010

If you take nothing else away from this blog post today, take this one thing. Lockjaw & The Pet Avengers was just released in a digest form collecting the original mini-series, the follow-up one-shot comic, and the official Marvel Pets Handbook. I know I tend to give comic books a hard time, so let’s just say [...]