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 series [...]

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Superman is my favorite comic book hero. My first comic was a Superman comic. I own issues 1-100 of the second Superman series (the one John Byrne launched), along with a large chunk of other titles starring the Big Red “S” from the late 80s to early 90s. That run included the “Death of Superman” [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I stumbled across a 14-day free trial of City of Heroes on Friday. CoH being the one MMO I have always wanted to play, I didn’t pass the opportunity up.
It took most of Saturday to download and install the client and upgrades, leaving me only a couple hours to play Saturday night. Fortunately, the folks [...]

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