Monthly Archives: January 2024

I’ve been trying and it has been too long coming but I do not believe that I am any better now at accepting rejection than I have ever been. It is still hard. I still fear it. I still avoid … Continue reading →

As she matured into womanhood Jean found himself maturing in other ways she didn’t understand. Her body was changing, certainly, but her mind was doing things that simply made no sense. She could lift hundreds of pounds from across the … Continue reading →

If I was just about the most powerful super-terroriststhat the world has ever seen and I kept being shown up by a bunch of snotty teenagers who didn’t have an inch of the might that I had and then I … Continue reading →

Over time, you realize the value of certain soft skills. We knew all along that Doug was special with his inimitable ability to speak to anybody but we didn’t connect to how valuable it was to speak to like, everything. … Continue reading →

Think of it: you’re born with the ability to wish what you want but you don’t know you have that ability and you’re raised in a house absent wealth absent security absent many of the basic needs. You could imagine … Continue reading →

Some of their supernatural abilities are like each other’s. Piotr’s steel skin protects him like Gunther’s force field or Hisako’s psionic projection or even Fred’s incredible fat. They’ve all built defenses to survive in pretty similar ways that look excitingly … Continue reading →

He used to be able to make slushies at will but things have changed. Now he can sheath the planet in ice if he wishes. he can become an army of ice warriors and control them in combat carriers careening … Continue reading →

It was not easy but when he could get away from the pressures of prying eyes he could release his bonds and remove his shirt and then he let go and fly. People couldn’t see. They would never allow that, … Continue reading →

Being born warped was badbut not as bad as being born a Mortimer. He could make something of himself with his abilities, but his name? That would doom him forever. Mortimer found himself craving attention and felt little for himself … Continue reading →

He thinks he was the first of a great many thingsbut he’s not. The first sea-born/land-born hybrid? Hardly. The first mutant? Not by millennia. The first super-powerful villain to ever attack the world? Probably not the first to attack Manhattan … Continue reading →