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Interview at "A Thousand Faces"
I was interviewed by Frank Byrns over at A Thousand Faces: The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Fiction. An excerpt:
One thing that bothered me about The Incredibles was that the self-made character, the character who went to a determined and ingenious effort to better himself, was the villain. This isn't an uncommon meme in superhero stories; most of the heroes are given power, either through accidents (birth, explosion, radioactive spider-bite) or by way of an inherited fortune. On the villain side we find an inordinate amount of "mad scientist" characters, but really the only difference between them and Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne is the size of their R&D budget--I might turn to crime too, if it was the only way to fund my world-saving invention without handing it over to a corporation.
Check out the journal's other features too, including a whole mess of original fiction!
One thing that bothered me about The Incredibles was that the self-made character, the character who went to a determined and ingenious effort to better himself, was the villain. This isn't an uncommon meme in superhero stories; most of the heroes are given power, either through accidents (birth, explosion, radioactive spider-bite) or by way of an inherited fortune. On the villain side we find an inordinate amount of "mad scientist" characters, but really the only difference between them and Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne is the size of their R&D budget--I might turn to crime too, if it was the only way to fund my world-saving invention without handing it over to a corporation.
Check out the journal's other features too, including a whole mess of original fiction!