Then and now.

[demiurgent]

Thirteen years ago, I could cheerfully write any Superguy story I wanted, asserting the most banal bullshit and getting things wrong gleefully with a toss of my head and saying (in my best Ed Wood, Jr. voice) no one's going to pay attention to the little details.

Today, I work on a super hero story and have to stop and think oh shit. I have a throwaway sentence about close up magic. Now I have to buy and read seven books -- including books by Bill Severn and Penn & Teller.

I'm not sure I've gained anything.

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Re: superguy

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh!

To my knowledge, no. A very not-based-on-Burt-Ward Burt Ward appeared in Superguy, and Andrew Goodwin did as well, but this was an "Andrew Goodwin" that the author of that series in question, Dominic White, went to the University of Hartford with in the late eighties and early nineties. It seems unlikely that Andrew Goodwin went on to manage Burt Ward.

Not impossible, mind. But unlikely.

Re: superguy

[(Anonymous)]

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