I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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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!