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Laurence Fishburne has been cast as Perry White in the new Superman movie. Over in the Ultimates line of Marvel Comics, the new Spider-Man is a young bi-racial teen named Miles Morales.

If you dislike Fishburne as an actor, or if you’re upset that they killed Peter Parker (even in a reality separate from mainstream Marvel Comics), fine. No problem. But if your objection to either or both is that the actor/character isn’t white?

Shut the hell up and keep it to yourself. You’re making the rest of us geeks–and the rest of us human beings, for that matter–look bad.

(And I wish to hell this was just me being preemptive, but I’ve already seen lots of racist commentary on both issues, and it turns my stomach.)

Okay, obviously we have no idea how good the movie will be (though judging by the prior two, I’m guessing pretty good)…

But as far as teaser posters go, this may just be one of the coolest I’ve seen in a very long time. 😯

Hey, folks. Phil Athans–a guy with whom I and many other authors have worked, and who usually knows what he’s about (except, y’know, for the part where he hired me)–is doing a webinar on the 21st.  It’s all about selling your fantasy or sci-fi to agents and editors; you can find the details here.

If this is something you’ve been working toward, there are far worse people whose advice you could heed.

Okay, here’s a weird one.

Is there anywhere I can go on the net that presents lists of characters from myth and classical literature organized by the century/time period in which their exploits supposedly occurred?

Yeah, I know I don’t ask much, do I? 😉

A period of time during which non-traveling writers and freelancers can expect to receive absolutely no answers to any of their questions. 😛

(Have fun, guys. I hate you.)

I don’t know if I’m prepared to call this the best Marvel movie to date. Need to see it, and some of the others, a few more times.

But I am prepared to say that, in terms of mood/tone/feel/aesthetics, it got absolutely everything right. Seriously. It’s brilliant in that regard alone. My biggest complaint is that it wasn’t about eight hours longer, so we could see a lot more of Cap’s missions during WWII.

Between this and X-Men: First Class, I kind of want at least half of all comic book movies to be period pieces from here on out.