Carrey, Stoltz, and Illusion as the Ultimate Weapon
I've been thinking a lot recently about superheroes and the deconstruction thereof (with the "recent" releases of Watchmen and The Dark Knight, who can blame me? Especially since I burned off a lot of my hard-boiled deconstructionism, despite never finishing the self-aware-comic-book-investigator story "The Last Back Issue"). As a result, I'm feverishly - okay, more laconically - rewriting "Night in the City of Dreams", but I also have three other ideas. One involves a beat cop arresting a supervillain for some relatively-minor infraction, like jaywalking or running a stop sign. The second is "Farmhouse Hero", about the son of a farming family who are the victims of a cattle-rustling ring. He becomes a hero, but since there are only three people for miles around, everyone knows who he is, etc. Superheroes are a function of population centers. Finally, I want to look at the similarities we put on superheroes and serial killers, what with snappy names, secret identities, popular followings, and sometimes fancy costumes.
So much for having hung up the pen.
So much for having hung up the pen.