Originally published in separate posts on Facebook on January 2, 2013. Who’s nicer? Horror writers or science fiction writers? Well, there’s a very small percentage of self-published horror authors who are some of the most frightening human beings who have committed prose to print, because their interest is exclusively in the gore, to the exclusion of any […]
Some folks of the conservative bent are throwing public snits over Marvel’s SAM WILSON: CAPTAIN AMERICA #1, in which the current Cap, a black man, fights white supremacists. They take open offense at this, saying among other things that superhero comics are no place for politics. Now, this is shooting fish in a barrel. I […]
From time to time the following comedic trope appears in movies or television: the totally out-of-control ego monster of a prominent author, who abuses everybody who gets within twenty feet of him, who must be tended by a full-time handler from the publisher, to make sure he gets his latest book done. I have seen […]