Slightly off word count tonight; but I’m OK wrapping up the day with this: “No matter. He had the raw material he needed.It was time to remake the world.” I started the day off this morning with a ridiculously costumed villain that came to me in the wee hours of […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
So earlier today, I tweeted this: Last year I set a goal to write and publish my first book before I hit 40. Maybe I should tweak it slightly to write 2 before 40 #6weeks— Anthony Karcz (@Sunstreaker84) July 9, 2014 Then after the coffee wore off and I got […]
On Writing and Big Hairy Deadlines
The End is Nigh offers up end of the world nightmare scenarios by some of my favorite authors: Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, and Paolo Bacigalupi (among many others). I’m usually not one to go in for anthologies. They can can be questionably curated, with only a few stories worth the price […]
What I’m Reading Now: The End is Nigh
Well damn, looks like I only have a few months in which to lock myself in a heuristically sealed control room with my DVR and some Cool Ranch Doritos and catch up on Arrow! CW has announced that The Flash is going to bow on October 7! I love what […]
Premiere Date for The Flash set for October
One of the things I absolutely love in fiction, any fiction, is artful deconstruction of the meta. It’s something that I am horrible at, mostly because I’m too terrified to really commit. And that’s the rub, if you’re going to start poking at that fourth wall, you’d better be prepared […]
When Fiction Attacks! The Gunfighter
One of my early jobs out of college, I found myself with an entire month and nothing to do. Lucky for me, I had the internet and I’d just stumbled across a cache of digital comics that included the entire original run of Transformers, all 80 issues! As I pored […]
More than Meets the Obsession
Earlier today I posed the following comic trivia question on Twitter and Facebook: “Who was responsible for the Age of Apocalypse event in X-Men and what did they do?” The answer is this dude (channeling some insane Kid n’ Play hair) and the even is killing his dear old dad: That’s Legion and, […]
Trivia Time! Answer – Age of Apocalypse Edition
So do you think you got the answer right to today’s Guess Who? I posted this on Twitter and Facebook this morning: And here’s the answer: It’s Iceman! Well…not really. I mean, it is Iceman. But it’s not Bobby Drake driving. In Uncanny X-Men 314, Emma Frost (who was still villainous back then) was out […]
Guess Who #4
So do you think you got the answer right to today’s Guess Who? I posted this on Twitter and Facebook this morning: And here’s the answer: Did you guess Archangel? I would have taken Angel as well, since he’s still blue with metal wings (occasionally) in modern comics and goes by that. Before I […]
Guess Who #3
So now that the cat is out of the bag, I’m sure you’re wondering what Nightingale is about. After all, “superhero novel” is a rather nebulous moniker. (Note to self, create villain named “Nebulous Moniker” for next story.) And I’ll get there; but first I wanted to tell you a […]