Joss Whedon has stepped down from scripting duties on a proposed BATGIRL movie, saying he just couldn’t come up with a story. I suspect he had some other reasons, some of which speak well of him and some of which don’t, but that’s a boring subject. (So is whether there should be a Batgirl movie, […]
The stupidest thing about our National Anthem is that with three of the four stanzas of the original poem omitted for racism or other political reasons and only the third actually sung at ball games and whatnot, what’s left, what we sing, is the cliffhanger. It amounts to, “Morning’s coming. Is the flag still there?” […]
Originally published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, January 2017. You know what kind of stories we don’t see much of, anymore, in print or visual media? Well, that’s actually one of those questions possessed of multiple answers, and always will be, because the fact of the matter is that certain sub-genres fall in and […]