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“I think ordinary people can choose to be extraordinary.” I talk about the things I love: comics, wrestling, and films. Creator/Conceptualizer
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Chapter Three (opens the original)
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Odalys came out of the storehouse with flour still on her hands and stood in front of Annabelle like she meant to physically block the road with her body, which, at sixty-one, against armored riders, was either the bravest or the stupidest thing Annabelle had ever seen her do. Possibly both."Go out the back," Odalys said, not looking at her. "The Trenholm cellar, they'll hide you….""They'll see us running. They'll burn the whole street looking." Annabelle's voice came out steadier than she felt,
Chapter Two (opens the original)
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The trick to setting a bone was to stop thinking of it as a bone."Think of it as a fence post," Aunt Odalys used to say, back before her hands got too stiff to do this kind of work herself. "You wouldn't cry over a fence post."Annabelle wasn't crying. Old Ferris was, a little, teeth gritted around it, sweat cutting tracks through the dust on his face. She had his forearm braced between two strips of cured leather and she was watching his eyes instead of his arm, because that was the other trick,
Chapter 1 (opens the original)
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The vampire had been dead for three minutes before Caleb pulled the stake out of its chest.It went first for the throat, the way they always did. Caleb let it come. He caught the wrist an inch from his neck, twisted until something in the joint gave, and put the stake through the ribs while it was still screaming about its hand. Silver-tipped. Order-issue. It punched through bone like the bone wasn't there.The thing folded around the wound and went still. Not dead-still. Vampires didn't die like
How I would run IDW Publishing (opens the original)
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# If I Ran IDW*A fan's turnaround plan for one of comics' most interesting failures*IDW has always felt like a publisher with more potential than direction. It's sat on Star Trek, Transformers, TMNT, and G.I. Joe licenses, published genuinely great creator-owned work (Locke & Key, anyone?), and still managed to stumble through layoffs, leadership shakeups, and years of "what exactly is this company trying to be?" So here's my answer, laid out the way I'd actually run it if someone handed me the
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