Guest Post Is Live At The Greater Portland Scribists

The great people–including fellow SHUWPF graduate and overall awesome Cynthia Ravinski–over at The Greater Portland Scribists just posted my guest post, “Diagnosis Anthology.” It’s part of their Anthology Celebration series. This is my take on why it is important, but why it is also hard to get people to write, edit, and publish these kinds of books.

Need more enticing? Okay, here’s a little teaser:

As a writer, I find anthologies invaluable. The reader in me finds them essential. But if you were to go to any publisher, you would find they tend to be hesitant with them. I know because I have an idea for an anthology and went around trying to get a feel for who could be interested and what I, as the editor, would need to do on my end. Let me tell you, if you thought being a writer was a tough job, look into being an anthology editor. Writing will seem like a cakewalk.

If you want the rest–and there is quite a bit more–you’ll have to read the rest there.

Mister Rogers Remix

It’s been pretty busy here getting ready to go up to Seton Hill on Tuesday. But when I saw this, I thought everyone should check it out, especially with your kids if you have any.

White Series

This is a series of pictures that are of all the same set of figures, just from different perspectives. There were lots of interesting ways they interacted with each other. So the first picture is the stand alone shot. Everything after it, I only change the place ment of the camera. Hope you enjoy them.

What The Alan Scott Nerdrage Is About

DC Comics officially revealed that the very first Green Lantern, Alan Scott, will be reboot as a gay character. Considering that when I checked Twitter this morning (and it may still be the same as you read this) both Alan Scott and Green Lantern were trending topics in the US, I have to say there is more people upset with it than welcoming it. The news wasn’t that astonishing to me, he was mentioned a few times when news that DC was turning a perviously straight hero gay was leaked (Martian Manhunter was another, there’s something about the color green). But I will admit I was bit upset, but I didn’t know why.

First, I thought that it might deal with the fact that this will make it impossible for Jade, Alan Scott’s daughter, most likely won’t exist, or be the same person at the very least. She was a great female hero and was the only female Green Lantern I ever really knew about as a kid. But then I remember that Jade was originally put up for adoption, so Alan being gay could easily just switch it that she is adopts by Alan and somehow gets his powers from a blood transfusion ala She-Hulk (I really hope they don’t do the She-Hulk thing, but considering the cheesier thing the New 52 has done, I wouldn’t be surprised).

Then I it came to me, this has nothing to do with Alan Scott. Maybe for the intolerant assholes it is, but for me and I think average comic readers, it is isn’t. It’s that the Earth-2 universe is getting the reboot that promised with the New 52. For the last 9 months, we haven gotten comics that really are not that different from what was coming out of DC before. Backstory is different, a bit, but all in all, there was no real reboot. There is no clean slate and starting over. A state where you say someone on the Justice League, DC’s flagship title, was gay. Why isn’t someone in the main DC universe getting the sexual reboot, why is all the crap we were hoping to see going into Earth-2?

Think about how the dynamic would change if Hal Jordan or Barry Allan or Cyborg were gay. I bet Wonder Woman wouldn’t mind a guy that isn’t leering at her ass during battles.