The Fireside

I haven't seen Dawn of Justice yet. This is a post about my initial thoughts, musings, and 'pre-watching' reactions. So, I'm calling the film "Dawn of Justice" as opposed to "Batman v Superman" or whatever, because based on one of the previews, it seems to be essentially a prologue to the Justice League. Since I haven't seen the film yet, I will of course reserve any 'score' or 'final say' until then. The first two previews I saw (and I think I saw 3 at the most: one to see some footage, another one due to 'Comic Con Craze' and the final one due to it being shown ahead of a film I was watching in the cinemas). Looked pretty interesting. "Hey it's Superman vs Batman!!". I've read some comics (nothing against those that haven't, just offering context) and those two usually have their reasons for things actually coming to a fight. Despite Superman's powers and abilities, Batman puts up a fight a g...

Well, another update… I’ve been too busy to blog lately. Not that much time in front of the computer in general, really. I suppose it’s time to give a writing update, which is how I’ll ‘catch up’ on the blog this week. So the news! It’s not big or major news, but I’ve come to the realization that my book series will be six volumes. This is nothing new, as I had always said ‘five or six’, or ‘if five is too large, I’ll do a sixth’. I’m just confirming that it will be six. No more, no less. I’m piecing stuff together in my head (and my notes of course) and six volumes seems and feels more logical, organic and less stressful than limiting myself to five volumes. It also gives the story of the entire series more room to breathe and develop.  They won’t be huge books, but they’ll be a little bit larger than ‘normal’ (don’t count on any of them being less than 500 pages in hardback format, but no larger than 700 pages) So, that’s the update: it will be told in six ...