Failing Better
Or, what Piers is working on right now. Persephone (formerly Untitled Horror Project) – a feature. I’m just finishing off the second draft, should be done by the end of next week. The narrative frame is OK, but there’s at least one subplot I’m going to have to take a long hard look at in …
There’s a terrible poster adorning the side of bus shelters in the UK right now. It features a picture of Sir Alan Sugar, star of the UK version of “The Apprentice”. He stares menacingly out of the poster, finger pointing directly at you. A wisp of smoke rises from his finger. Beneath it, the caption: …
Warren Ellis has created and written some of the best comic series ever. Planetary. Transmetropolitan. The Authority. For just three off the top of my head. Indeed, like The Mighty Stephen Hawking, he is fully deserving of the Mighty appelation. But what is it that makes someone worthy of that title? I think we can …