Meanwhile…

Lyndon Perry over at The Fix has reviewed the whole of issue 4 of A Thousand Faces. There’s a lengthy paragraph on “Shades of Red“! It is glowing!

Thanks to Jens for the heads up!

Red 5′s Atomic Robo, by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener – I picked up all six issues of this at Cape! this past weekend, and it’s a blast. It’s basically Hellboy, but with a robot, and more science-oriented than mystic. Some of the best material is the little digs the famous scientists take at each other. Great stuff. As I’m reading it, I see a lot of the same type of storytelling I want to do with Asta, my android detective; the series can jump around in time and tell a variety of stories, all while leaving the character essentially unchanged. Atomic Robo was even built around the same time (a little earlier, from what I gather).

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 1, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez – this is the book that saved DC back in the early ’80s. While I like some of the individual Titans as characters, as a team they’ve never really interested me much. This hasn’t really changed that opinion. This hasn’t aged as well as some of the X-Men books from the same time period. I will say this, though–they pack a lot of story into each of those issues.

Christine Falls, by Benjamin Black – Mystery novel set in 1950s Ireland. I’ve barely gotten started on it, but it seems really good so far.

Saw Iron Man last night.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. There were a few very minor things I could nitpick, but I won’t. Because it’s awesome. I’m looking forward to seeing it a couple more times. I was giddy going in, with crazy high expectations. I think the last time I was this excited to see a movie was…maybe Phantom Menace? Except this time I wasn’t met with crushing disappointment and epic fail. Make sure you stay after the credits and prepare yourself for multiple nerdgasms. (And if someone behind you shouts “He’s white!” turn and punch them in the neck.)

Anyway, back to the grindstone. It’s a new month, so we have started a new prompt contest. I’ve started right out of the gate!

Prompt:

Write a story about a rattletrap ship (spaceship, pirate ship, air ship, ocean liner, etc.) and its crew.

I started out intending to make this a spaceship story, but it took a kind of a weird turn into some sort of Irish steampunk thing. I like it, though, it has potential. About 560 words.

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Every Day Fiction has posted their Table of Contents for May, and it looks like my mystery flash piece “Aftershocks” will be appearing there on the 22nd. I’ll post another reminder here the day of, of course. I’m particularly proud of this piece.

And I believe this marks the first time anyone has referred to me as an “author.”