MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 064: Adding the Last Period Most serialized storytelling takes place in this kind of protracted middle. There is always another bad guy to punch or skyscraper to websling from or vampire to stake. Batman will never actually clean up Gotham City. Of course, there are miniseries and […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 063: Days of Comic-Cons Past If you’re the kind of person who attends Comic-Con International then you, like me, have already been preparing for it. You’re months in: You’ve got your badge, your lodging, your transportation sorted—or mostly sorted. (There’s always a bit of last-minute jockeying, especially […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 061: Gearing Up With the hotel lottery behind us — I hope the odds were in your favor — it’s time to focus on what’s really important for writers at SDCC. No, it’s not the parties you’re gonna try and get into, or the fancy lounges you […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 060: The Choice It’s the beginning of a new year and if you’re anything like me, you: A) Wonder how you made it through the previous year and B) What you’re going to try and get done this time around the sun. But deciding what you’ll put […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 59: Finding the Voice Unless you’re a novelist, who gets to write purely for yourself, it is likely that at some point you will have to write for “someone.” And that someone could be many things. If you’re writing comics, that could mean writing a character that […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 058: Someone Else’s Toys There are a couple of ways to make your living writing comics (or TV, or movies, or novels). You can chart a completely new path and make up something brand new, never-before-seen. Or you can tell a story in a world using characters […]