MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 030: Jumping off the Cliff There will come a time—if you’re lucky, it’ll happen more than once—when you encounter a story that you’re not sure you can write. A story that makes you afraid for any number of reasons. Assuming that the story is a good one—or […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 028: Vision and Compromise Like many of my life-minded brethren and sistren, I went to go see director George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road this weekend. And, too, like many of them, I was left gobsmacked. Not just because the action is amazing (it is) or because Charlize Theron […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 027: Should You Read the Comments? I have memories of the Wednesday my first comic book, The Highwaymen, dropped in 2007. I wish I could say those memories are fond; they are mixed, at best. I remember staying up for most of that Wednesday night, and then Thursday night, […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 026: So, What’s In A Name? We’re all hoping for that moment in a script, where you build up to the introduction of a character and you want it to have the same immortal cool as Ian Fleming’s introduction of 007: “The name is Bond, James Bond.” […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 025: How to Diversify We seem to talk every 12 months at around this time—Black History Month—about diversity in comics. About how all too often the books that we read, and the people who create them, don’t betray the plurality of the world at large. This is […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 024: Get Out I have made the excuse more often than I can count: That the reason I write fiction, science fiction at that, is because I prefer making stuff up to researching it. Never mind the fact that making up a world that feels real requires […]