superheroes
There are several reasons why Japanese manga and American comics are so different. Cultural differences are a major factor of course, but these two forms of sequential art also developed independently and under different circumstances. Manga grew out of printing techniques that date back centuries and became both thoroughly mainstream
writing
For whatever reason I had the idea to try to explain my creative process, I think as much for myself as anyone else. I don’t have a lot to say about the nitty gritty of how to put sentences together, and this is more about the overall shape of
Gladiator
“If he could but have ended the war single-handed, it might have been different. But he was not great enough for that. He had been a thousand men, perhaps ten thousand, but he could not be millions. He could not wrap his arms around a continent and squeeze it into
LLMs
“Artificial intelligence” is the current source of tech hype, and it’s a lot bigger than recent fads like the metaverse and NFTs. Cryptocurrency is still going strong despite being rife with scams, but it’s still small potatoes compared to the current AI bubble. Total investments in generative AI
The Matrix
Working on the Xeroverse novels led me to The Myth of the American Superhero and its “American monomyth” becoming a significant influence on the story and my understanding of the world. I’ve covered it previously, but in short, the American frontier fostered a heroic archetype of a loner who
superheroes
To accompany the Xeroverse Tetralogy, I'm also working on a nonfiction book tentatively titled The Trouble with Superheroes, which lays out the various issues I see with the genre and how it could be better. One of the linchpins of my critique is to take a close look
writing
Mother’s Basement, a YouTube channel that does content about anime, posited that the way to see if an isekai anime is worth watching is to see if the protagonist being from Earth actually matters within the first episode. That isn’t an ironclad rule, but when the whole premise
Over the past few years, the core of my creative endeavors has shifted from designing TTRPGs to writing fiction. I do want to get back into TTRPGs at some point, but my writing feels like it needs its own home. A blog feels like the right place for that, though