MARTHA THOMASES: Everyday I Write the Book
These are the Days of Awe. While that sounds like a World Wrestling event, it is, in fact, the ten-day period between Rosh Hashonah (New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). It’s a time to consider the previous twelve months, make amends, and resolve to do better in the year ahead.
It’s a good thing that it lasts ten days. In my case, not only do I have the usual apologies to make, but I need a little extra time to get over myself. This has been a good year. I have a job I love with people who are really fun, and we’re going to bring happiness to billions. I must be fabulous!
The Jewish God, whatever else S/He may be, is one heck of a storyteller. There is the part in the service where one prays to be inscribed for another year in the book of life. We all want to be characters in that book.
And that’s why I must resist the temptation to consider myself too fabulous. It’s not dramatically interesting to have a character achieve success and/or happiness in the middle of the story, then coast along to the end. If there is a Book of Life, I want to be around to find out what happens next.
Writers like to play God, and we like to think we’re clever about the way we move our characters around, putting them in and out of jeopardy. Comic book, science fiction and fantasy writers can be feel this way especially, as we can not only put our characters through the dramas and adventures humans experience, but we can also put them into space colonies, make them invulnerable to bullets, and magical wonderlands.
One of the more disturbing yet oddly challenging drinking games around comes to us from 
He started in comics almost before he started junior high school – and four decades he is ready to make his comeback at the very spot where it all started. Yes, Jim Shooter tells The Big ComicMix Broadcast why he’s returning to The Legion of Super-Heroes!
Today marks the eight year anniversary of the tragic events at Moonbase Alpha, where all 311 of the base’s inhabitants were lost and presumed killed after terrorists set off a thermonuclear chain reaction on the moon’s Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2.
It’s the odd little news story that tends to grab my eye and we got an interesting one this week. Not only the story itself, but how it is being told.
