This week marks one month since I stopped my subscription to the City of Heroes MMO. (I also realized that this month marks the four year anniversary of this blog!) I’ll admit I’ve been tempted a few times to reactivate the account and log in. It’s not that I miss the gameplay, so much as [...]
Forging Steele
Filed under Writing Journal on April 11, 2008
Tagged: Longarm, superheroes, webcomics
Shadowline seeking super-heroine
Filed under Market Report on December 26, 2007
Tagged: comic books, superheroes
J.L. Collins kindly posted a contest announcement from Shadowline. Seems they’re looking for a writer to pair with artist Franchesco! (yes, the exclamation point is part of the name) to produce a three-issue mini-series featuring a super-heroine. Writer and artist will share trademark and copyright, and split back-end profits. They’re taking one-paragraph synopses of the [...]
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Filed under Writing Journal on August 15, 2007
Tagged: City of Heroes, comic books, Jumpstar, superheroes, Top Cow
Issue #20, the final City of Heroes comic by Top Cow, is now available for download. Why should you care? Because it features a short story by yours truly. “A Star is Born” is the origin of Jumpstar, one of the superheroes I play in the City of Heroes MMO, as told by a reporter [...]
Jumpstar lives
Filed under Writing Journal on May 4, 2007
Tagged: City of Heroes, comic books, fan fiction, Jumpstar, superheroes
I got a wonderful little email from the folks at NCSoft last night. If you remember, I wrote up an origin story for a superhero I created to play in their City of Heroes mmorpg. One of the ways NCSoft promotes the community for CoH is to accept fiction written by fans set in the [...]
