I have a family emergency and won’t be able to put up the scheduled blog post. Thank you for understanding.
Once more, Vaal finds himself confronting another awful thing DC Comics did. I tried to do something intelligent with it, I really did. I think I took INT damage from… FUTURE’S END #0 Continue reading
The Second part of Vaal’s reminiscing about Volume 2, oh so long ago… Continue reading
Vaal takes a look back at the Second Volume of the series. Continue reading
Sometimes if you whine long enough, you get exactly what you want. Let that be a lesson to you kids! Continue reading
Just a few thoughts from Vaal on his membership in what is sure to be an austere group that only keep him around due to the Grandfather Clause.
Vaal thinks authors could take some lessons from the scribes of screen and stage. Like so:
Vaal issues a modest proposal that requires no cooking at all: use the powers of the Reboot for good rather than evil!
Last week, I promised a friend of mine would be taking over the blog this week. They were unable to and so now you must suffer my quick and dirty scramble. The question is ‘what sort of dreck can a hack writer toss out there on limited time and resources’? Luckily, my brethren in the field of TV writing solved that long ago: a clip show! There might be some readers, born in an age of better-planned series, who are largely unfamiliar with this concept, so let me explain. Occasionally, a TV production will run low on money or time to shoot a full season of episodes. There are several options you can go with here, the best being the Bottle Episode, which is a low-effects, low-guest star episode that doesn’t use any new sets. These often turn out to be great episodes because they’re forced to focus on the main characters and not on guest stars or gimmicks. But a bottle episode still requires a lot of heavy lifting on the writer’s part and sadly, a lot or writers are really lazy. For these guys, the best solution is the Clip … Continue reading
Vaal talks secret identities and why they’re awesome but often mis-used.
