Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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Coming soon to a comic book near you: Opera Man!
Check out this headline: “Opera is new weapon in fight against crime.”
Am I the only one who sees a potential new caped (or, possibly, horned) crusader waiting to be brought to comic-book life? He doesn’t fight criminals: he drives them away with the power of his Puccini, the weight of his Wagner, the might of his Mozart, the vigor of his Verdi, the–well, you get the idea.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/01/coming-soon-to-a-comic-book-near-you-opera-man/
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I love this idea! Perhaps on a smaller scale I can try it around the house on my own kids in, say, the room with the Playstation. Oh wait…my kids like opera. They like all music.
Here’s another thought, then. I will rig music to play from my cleaning cupboard. Every time the kids reach for the Comet, The White Stripes will play, or maybe The Black Eyed Peas.
Never mind the kids. I think I’d like it too!