(Sunday Thought) The Arrow of Reality

We are witnessing the reversal of an arrow. For all of human history, it was the physical world that impinged our minds. In the future, it is our minds that will impinge the physical world. At the smallest scale, this is nothing new. When early man faced the need to smash a hard tuber or …

(Curiosity) Let’s Fight!

I had a couple conversations recently about writing fight scenes and how abysmal they usually are to read, even to watch. Action is very tedious, after all. Think of how quickly a car chase gets dull. Or boxing. Those who enjoy it do so for the show of skill and the suspense, same as any …

Who Are the Superheroes of the 21st Century? (And a New Release!)

When I started working on THE MINUS FACTION, I decided that I wanted way more realism than you would find in a standard comic book. I also wanted to avoid mere replication of the classic superhero canon, which is to say: -a (usually white) male meta-human prince (Superman, Thor, Namor, Black Panther, etc.) -a (usually …