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I hate Batman's eyes. Over the years Batman has been adapted for the big screen several times and one thing that has remained consistent with every iteration is the eyes of the bat suit. What do I mean by this? Whenever we see Batman he has a suit that makes the majority of his body look like a bat but when we look at the eyes of the bat suit they are the eyes of a human. You're probably thinking to yourself as opposed to what eyes exactly? Here's the alternative. In Batman the animated series whenever he puts on his suit his eyes turn into white slits. that's how batman's eyes look in the majority of his comic book appearances and all of his animated incarnations. The movies however still have a caped crusader that looks nothing like this. What do we lose with this. Well if we look at human eyes that tells us that Batman is really just a man underneath that costume. If we look at two white sectioned off slits in the mask that gives him more of an inhuman look. he could strike more fear into the hearts of his enemies. So much of the batman mythology centers around him becoming more than a man. Surrendering his humanity and ascending to the status of symbol, of myth. With human eyes he still retains his humanity but with inhuman eyes he becomes so much more. That's a small visual representation that the movies have missed. To more solidify my point in the Spiderman movies from the early 2000's the eyes on the Spiderman suit look true to the comic books and nothing like human eyeballs. So it was done in a film that was better able to encapsulate the superhero trope of becoming superhuman and accomplish everything I'm talking about. So why do I care about this? I believe that it was Edgar Allen Poe that said eyes are the windows to the soul. That is extremely true for our favorite movies. If we see a characters eyes we can see there humanity and their soul. Conversely if we don't see a persons eyes then this character becomes so much more than a character. Certain characters like Robocop and judge dread wear dressings that cover their eyes. This is a step that removes them from humanity and makes them incarnations of cold, hard justice. In Star Wars when we look at Darth Vader and the storm troopers they wear masks that cover their entire face removing their humanity almost entirely becoming representatives of evil and death. I'll just touch on Boba Fett briefly saying that he is one of those characters that is removed from humanity because we do not see his face. I think back in the day what made fans love him was how little we interact with him. His limited screen time gives him an air of mystery around him. And in that mystery fans were able to imprint whatever they felt on to that character. Some fans could think of him as a cowboy others a knight others a bounty hunter. The possibilities were endless. So this is a cry to have Batman fall in line with other interesting characters in the cinematic tradition. It's a concept that I've yet to see live action batman embrace and it especially was absent in the most recent film with Robert Pattenson. There is some hope on the horizon though. There was a live action film that portrayed this eyeless Batman for me. In Batman V Superman dawn of justice Batman wears a mech suit for his fight with the son of krypton and this mech suit sports pale blue glowing eyes. They are a perfect representation of what I'm talking about and I hope they pick up on it in future films.

I might as well give you a personal update while I'm here. I do have to admit that my writing process has hit a snag. I've gone through a very big change in my life. I've gotten a new day job that's really started to take a good chunk out of my day. I know it's for the better but it's made me rearrange and reevaluate things in my life. So don't feel sorry for me feel glad for me. I definitely have been keeping myself busy right now I'm working on a project that could change everything in my life. So stay tuned for some amazing news.

I've discovered a new resource called hero forge minis. It's a website that helps you create digital models of fantasy characters and even print them out into tiny little mini figures. It's a great service and I've become quite addicted to it. It's so much fun to use this as an outlet of my creativity. Once I heard about this thing, I immediately used it to create my characters from the magic metal war books. I've considered selling these minifigures, but I've decided that they wouldn't be cost effective. So, for now I'll just give you guys some digital renderings to look at. I have considered creating merchandise centered around the magic metal war saga but at this moment I don't think there would be much demand for it. On a much deeper level I believe that playing with toys growing up was a fundamental basis of how I became a fantasy writer. When I was a kid, I played with legos, nerf blasters, and transformers. When I played like that it gave me the ability to comprehend characters and stories in a much more elastic way than anything else I think back on. So, here's a link to my glorious hero forge creations on twitter I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed digitally designing them.

https://twitter.com/chrisfritzcomic/s...

Looking back at all the movies I saw in 2021 I made an extraordinary discovery that my notion of storytelling to its very core. To demonstrate this notion I’m going to have to write about my favorite movie that came out in 2021 and my least favorite movie that came out in 2021. So let’s follow along and see if we can learn something.

The worst movie I saw in 2021 was Marvel’s the Eternals. Going into the movie I knew it had a bad rotten tomatoes score but I still wanted to see it. Right now I’m going to have to agree with the critics and say this movie was a swing and a miss. It feels strange because I am deep into the marvel cult and I know very little about the Eternals. I hoped for the best but I was disappointed. Maybe studying this movie for a little bit can teach us an important lesson. Here’s what I really believe. The Eternals is the complete antithesis of everything that makes marvel movies good. It takes everything that gives marvel success and runs in the complete opposite direction. Let’s start at the beginning with the characters. One staple of the MCU is making movies with big casts of unique characters. Some of the best examples would be the first Avengers movie and Infinity War. One of the reasons those movies are so good is that they don’t introduce us to new characters. They take almost all the characters from previously established movies and focus on the characters just interacting with each other. In Eternals they introduce us to ten new main characters, and this is the first time the audience is seeing any of them. So, this movie has to spend a good chunk of its run time introducing all these characters. It just fails to keep all these characters unique and interesting. Now right now you might be saying to yourself that there’s an exception to this rule. Guardians of the galaxy introduces us to an ensemble of new characters and it’s one of marvels greatest movies. That’s because that movie has a very strong plot which is the next thing I want to talk about, the plot. Now the plot of guardians of the galaxy is pretty straight forward. Here’s a powerful McGuffin all these characters have to play keep away with it for two hours. The plot of Eternals has so much deep lore, mysteries, magic, and plot twists that it’s enough to make anybodies head spin. There’s so many layers to this plot that it all just gets lost in the sauce. My final point is the probably the most important criticism I can levy against the movie and that is this movie doesn’t have good themes. To understand the themes of this movie you just need to understand the bad guys plan. A celestial god wants to destroy the earth and give birth to a new celestial who will in tern create new worlds across the galaxy giving life to trillions of sentient beings. (Spoiler alert) They want to trade the lives of everyone on earth for the lives of all these potential beings. If that sounds familiar to you it’s because that’s the theme of Avengers infinity war. Thanos wanted to trade the lives of half the universe so the other half could flourish. The Eternals just recycled that theme and the characters spend a good chunk of the film debating weather or not they should even save humanity. I moral dilemma that has already been solved by the previous avengers movies. So Eternals is really a bitter tasting mess that does not belong in the MCU and would probably feel more at home in the DCEU.

Now to review a film that I thought was one of the best from 2021 and that is a movie called Don’t Look Up. For those of you who haven’t seen it it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as a pair of scientists who discover a meteor that will collide with earth and destroy all life on the planet and they have to convince people to do something about it. Now for several years I’ve debated with myself about whether or not satire is a dead art form. Is it possible to satirize society and make jokes about our culture? Ever since the election of Donald Trump I think it’s become harder to do that. Mostly because with him we’ve ushered in the post truth era I think a side effect of this is a fracturing of culture into several different sub cultures that hold different beliefs and recognize different truths. So with all these fractured sub cultures how can someone truly satirize culture? The answer is Don’t Look Up. Let me explain. In the film the giant meteor that is headed to earth is an obvious comparison to climate change. So the audience can spend the entire movie comparing the disaster in the real world to the disaster of the fake world. The only thing that is consistent between the two is how humanity responds to the disaster. One major lynch pin of this movie is the fact that it does criticize the responses towards the meteor. But it doesn’t criticize the actions of everyday individuals. Instead it criticizes systems of production and consumption that envelop those individuals. Systems that envelop entire cultures and sometimes entire communities. So how does all of this relate to satire? Earlier this year Dave Chappelle released a stand up special called the closer and was immediately criticized for transphobic jokes. Now some people might argue that the jokes he told weren’t transphobic but here’s why I think a lot of people thought they were. In Dave’s jokes about the LGBTQ community he probably thought he was commenting on society in some way. And in a way he was but in a much bigger way he’s criticizing one subculture from the perspective of a different subculture. Subconsciously putting the African American culture up against the LGBTQ subculture. He also acts like these are two completely different factions that don’t have any way to cross over to each other. So I guess that’s why I think Dave Chappelle was thrown into the grinder this year. The guy is the greatest comic but maybe that means we should hold him to high standards. So my question still stands. Is it possible to satirize society? After all of this time I have to say the answer is yes but satire is going to look a lot different from now on. Now I guess the biggest thesis of Don’t Look Up is stated in the beginning minutes of the movie. When it just displays the text of a joke that reads like this. When I die I want to die like my grandpa peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like his passengers. This movie criticizes a lot of real world events and people. From politicians like Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton to billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. So I guess in this framing this satire is trying to tell us that these billionaires are the grandpa that died in his sleep and the entire earth are the passengers. In the end I think this movie is a good example of a great story. It’s a fantasy that can tell us more about ourselves than real stories ever could. Now my one criticism of the movie is that comparing climate change to a giant earth shattering comet doesn’t line up completely. Climate change is of course slow and manmade while a comet is a sudden cosmic anomaly. But it’s still a decent movie if you want to watch excellent acting get a few chuckles and also have a slow anxiety attack.

Now there’s something very amazing that happens when you compare Eternals and Don’t Look Up and that is this. They are the exact same movie but they go in completely opposite directions. Both movies are about a small group of people trying to save the world from total destruction. They both contemplate humanity, society, and nature and they both encounter god like beings that want to wipe out humanity. Both of these narratives question if humanity is worth saving and they come up with different answers. In Eternals they save the world in Don’t Look Up they don’t save the world. So let’s go over the process by which each movie comes to their own conclusion. In Eternals it runs the gamut of all human history and focuses on all the deadly weapons mankind has created. All the death and destruction of entire cultures and civilizations. But it does ground itself in a romantic humanism that always wins out in superhero movies. While Don’t Look Up does a deep dive into contemporary culture and forces us to look at our everyday contradictions. Just little things that we think or believe that are ultimately harmful to us. Things we’ve normalized that might harm us down the road. It could be the way we communicate, the way we produce, the way we consume, or even the way we reproduce. We can find harmful contradictions in all of them. Just maybe all of those contradictions add up to a point where we can’t help ourselves anymore. That leads me to something that I have believed for most of my life and that is this. Inside of every bad movie there is a good movie just trying to get out. So think of this when you’re reading, writing or creating. Sometime the difference between something good and something bad is just a few decisions.

I did find it interesting that two movies can be released in the same year and be about the same thing even though they’re different genres and styles. I’m very interested about stories that are apocalyptic or even post-apocalyptic so I might write more about those in the future. But what do you guys think? Am I on to something here or am I completely out in left field. Let me know in the comments.

Hello everybody, with 2021 coming to a close I thought I would give you guys a look at how this year went for me. For a long time, I’ve heard the cliché that this year just few by but holy shit that was true this year. This year was a fucking blur man. I did some good things this year. I released my second novel and the second installment in the magic metal war saga called the Well of Destruction. I did start up a Patreon account here’s a link to that so if you want to support on independent author this is a great way to do so for just a few dollars a month. https://www.patreon.com/chrisfritz The page is kind of in the beta stages of production right now so I’m working on beefing it up. Stayed tuned for more on that. I also did some more stand-up comedy. That is a major improvement over last year. I’ve gotten a lot more opportunities to do that, so we’ll see where that leads. I’ve also started writing the third installment in the magic metal war saga. It’s called the Sun vs the Moon and I’m a third of the way through writing it right now. My prediction is this one will be ready to publish in the later end of 2022. Don’t hold me to that that’s just a preliminary prediction. So, I do have a lot of irons in the fire that will keep me busy for the next year. There were some bad things that happened this year. I wanted to start a twitch channel, but I didn’t have the time. I still want to make a twitch channel someday but for now the project is in turnaround. This year has given me a lot of time to think. There are many things that happened this year that didn’t really go my way. Maybe the biggest one would be Netflix making a live action version of Cowboy Bebop and then canceling it after one season. Overall, I’m very optimistic about what the future has in store, and I hope 2021 treated you all well. So, what was your year like? Feel free to talk about it in the comments.

I’ve come to the conclusion that my sense of humor has gotten very strange recently. With that being said something dumb happened on the internet that is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever imagined. It’s the most gloriously shitty shit post that transcends time, space and reality. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this shit post is a beacon of garbage that burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. When I saw this shit post I fell to my knees and laughed until I was in tears. I seriously considered giving up writing comedy because there is no way on gods green earth that I could come up with something funnier than this post. Here’s what I’m talking about. Recently GOP representative Paul Gosar tweeted out a political campaign video. It was a 90 second parody of the opening theme of the popular anime series Attack on Titan. It was heavily edited to portray Gosar and other republicans as Eren Yeager, Mikasa and the other protagonists of the show. As well as portraying the US border patrol as the survey corps and the titans Titans as illegal immigrants. There's also a part where two of the Titans are portrayed as Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Joe Biden. Here’s a link to the video so you can see all the immense levels of shit for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSLp...

So let’s start to unpack this a little bit. The basic premise of Attack on Titan is humanity lives behind walls and they are under constant threat from giant flesh eating monsters called Titans. Inside of the stories plot and setting it lays out a dystopic, fascist world filled with rampant inequality and threats from other people as well as titans. It has a government that is concerned with maintaining the social hierarchy, keeping order in the walls and maintaining a strong military. A lot of the themes run parallel with the thinking of Nazi philosopher Carl Schmitt.

So most of Attack on Titan comes comes right out of the fascist playbook. In recent years the republicans have quickly been devolving into a party of fascists so it makes perfect strategic sense for Gosar to appropriate imagery from Attack on Titan. It’s so explicitly fascist that it had to be on purpose. Also all of the mainstream media interpreted this shit post as a threat to kill Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Joe Biden so watch out for that I guess. Once it blew up on social media Gosar took the video down and released a statement that said it’s just a joke and a cartoon that shouldn’t be taken so seriously but if my in-depth analysis holds up this isn’t just a cartoon and he really means this. He could have picked any anime to parody but he chose one that echoes the ideals of fascism.

So the question remains why do I find all of this funny. While I’m a big fan of anime I must say that in the US anime is an under-appreciated art form that is only recognized by niche audiences and is far from mainstream. So in my mind there’s no overlap between fans of anime and people who vote Republican. Republicans are old people who have no idea what anime is. Only people around my age or younger know what anime is and the younger generation are not voting for republicans. So whatever audience Gosar was trying to reach with this video he didn’t reach it at all. So the only thing that video accomplished was being completely cringey. So I find it hilarious that this video was a complete swing and a miss, it’s cringey and awkward, it’s a perfect metaphor for what the Republican Party currently is and what it’s turning into, and it’s also a threat to kill the president. That is why this shit post is the funniest thing that has ever happened. This shit post transcends our earthly reality and is a glimpse into the butthole of god.

I guess that’s just where my sense of humor is at right now. During the Trump years I was horrified that a person like that was in the white house. Now that the guy has been out of the public eye for a better part of a year I can finally look back and laugh at all the stupid stuff he did. With Trump gone the GOP is desperately scrambling to define themselves without him. This has resulted in a series of cartoonish stupid antics as well as some of them who act like they live in a fantasy world. All in an effort to appeal to and recreate the Trump phenomenon. So this shit post is truly a plateau of all that silliness. I might right some more about politics or anime in the future so stay tuned for that. Is there anything out there that you guys think is really weird but it also make you laugh out loud? Let me know in the comments.

Have a good one

Hey what's up everybody. I got some really good news to share with you. Just in time for the holidays I'm happy to announce that I'm offering hardcover versions of both of my books. The Universe Key and the Well of Destruction. I am so excited for this. Now my first two books can be enjoyed in long lasting hardcover versions for all the readers out there that prefer reading hardcover. I am so grateful for this opportunity to make hardcovers. Now I'm going to be honest with you guys these new versions are a little bit pricier than I'd like to admit. Printing costs really got me in a bind. So I'm going to give you something else. I am slashing prices on the paperback versions of both the Universe Key and the Well of Destruction. Now is the best time to get the paperback versions. I am so excited to be offering all of this. Here's the amazon links to check out my new hardcover versions today.

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I don't know where else to talk about this so here's me getting on my soapbox. So recently Disney announced a new line of Star Wars Lego sets. Including a new set featuring Boba Fett's starship called the Slave 1. The only problem is the name of the set isn't called the Slave 1 it's just called Boba Fett's Starship. Now I can understand the decision to do this nobody wants the name of their products to be associated with slaves. Slavery is very bad and making this politically correct naming choice is not a bad decision. Here's my problem. Even though they made this change Disney has no problems with slavery. Here's what I mean. Back in 2019 when Disney was filming the live action remake of Mulan they decided to film in the Xinjiang region of china for authenticity working very closely with the Chinese government. Now in the Xinjiang region of China the government is currently carrying out its genocide of the Uighur Muslim people. A facet of this genocide is forced labor. So with all of this in mind it's not unreasonable for me to say that it is a possibility that slave labor was utilized in making the 2020 live action reboot of Mulan. So when Disney tries to rebrand the Slave 1 as Boba Fett's Starship it's an empty gesture that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They're trying to appear progressive but when it comes down to it they'll do anything to make money.

That's the end of my rant thanks for reading I really needed to get that off my chest.

With myself and my fellow countrymen getting vaccinated against the coronavirus I must say that a significant phase of my life is ending and for better or worse a status quo is returning. With this fact staring me in the face I can’t help but look back on how I spent my time over the past year. I had some highs and some lows. I wrote my second book, I got called an essential worker and then got hung out to dry, I had a coworker who absolutely refused to wear a mask over his nose, I marched in a BLM rally, I voted by mail, and a nurse shoved a cotton swab up my nose. But overall I had a good time throughout the pandemic. When I reminisce about those times I’m probably just going to remember the good stuff. Even with all these good feelings going around I can’t help but feel a little guilty. Because there are a lot of people out there who had an absolutely horrible time during the pandemic and just because my experience was rather bright it doesn’t mean their pain isn’t any less painful. The pandemic has forced me to reflect and reevaluate my life and now I feel like I’m at a crossroads. I’ll have to make some big decisions soon. The pandemic has most likely had massive effects on our society that we still have to understand. There are many things I can say about all this and I think a lot of them were encapsulated by the new comedy special by Bo Burnham called Inside. That’s kind of what I really wanted to talk about. Now over the years no other modern artist has made me feel more emotions than Bo Burnham. He’s made me happy, sad, confused, content, afraid, and unfathomably angry. But when I watched Inside I felt all of those things and more. In this special Bo locks himself in a room for a year and made his entire special in this one room. He really focused on writing his songs, performing them in his one room that he makes into a stage, and turning them into music videos. Watching this special now forced me to reflect on all the different stages of the pandemic. What I felt as an individual and how we felt as a society that was disconnected from each other. It forced me to admit that I was afraid sometimes.

Let me tell you a story. During the summer of 2020 and at the height of the lockdown in my city a band of unhoused people came together and built a tent city on the steps of city hall. City hall was vacant at the time so they weren’t really disturbing anybody. It was a month long demonstration to show the people in my city that there is a housing crisis that must be addressed. So I went down to the tent city to see what all the commotion was all about. I didn’t have anything better to do so why not? So with a mask on my face I took a stroll through the tent city. When I took that stroll I was afraid. There were scores of unhoused people sitting in their tents, people were trying to properly dispose of dirty heroin needles, and there were volunteers gathered to try to get people help. I scurried away from the tent city after only a few minutes. I had to admit to myself that I was afraid. Maybe I was afraid of getting stabbed with a bloody heroin needle but if you think about it most times in life you don’t get stabbed with a bloody heroin needle unless you really piss somebody off. My point is that I was afraid and I had to find out why I was afraid. To wrap up this little aside I think I should add that when Trump didn’t get re-elected it felt like this huge weight was lifted off my shoulders but I digress.

The lighting for the special is absolutely astonishing. No matter what I ever say about Bo Burnham he is a good lighting director. Don’t ever let me say otherwise. Inside is truly a document of a man spending time with himself. A man looking back on what he did in the past and accepting himself, looking at who he is now and coming to terms with himself, and looking to the future to see who he wants to be. That process could be the hardest thing that a man can do in life. There are aspects of it that I find condescending. This guy is basically a millionaire trying to convince us that he has mental illness. One lesson I want to impart is this. Mental illness is a serious problem but if you have a shit ton of money you’re in a better position to deal with it. If you’re a normal person with a normal amount of money going through the same problems you’re going to have a much more difficult time. So whenever Mr. Burnham makes art about mental health issues I really don’t see it coming from a good place. Same thing with the pandemic. If somebody has a shit ton of money then they’re going to be just fine throughout the pandemic. Over all I like to think of Bo Burnham as pop culture’s first YouTuber. He makes silly videos about himself and through ways that most people don’t understand he’s made money at it. Hence my unfathomable anger. Who knows maybe I’m just destined to be this man’s harshest critic. Maybe I’ll talk about him more in the future but who knows.
So here I am in my crossroads. I have a need to make my life better and an extreme lack agency to do so. The last thing I want to do is ask you beautiful readers to do something for me. Talk about the hardships you’ve had over the past year. Feel free to write about it in the comments or just write about it on your individual social media platforms. No matter what story you have to tell your story is valid and deserves to be read.

Goodnight and go read a book.

I’ve written a lot about Star Wars. I admire how it’s been around for so long and how many lives it’s touched throughout the generations. A series that has been going on for so many years has had to change in so many ways. Now there’s one way it has changed that evolves one of the ideas that is at the stories very core and that transformation comes in the form of the Mandalorian. Now the basic story of the Mandalorian follows a bounty hunter named Din Djarin who has taken it upon himself to to care for a small child that the fans have affectionately named baby yoda. I don’t think that it’s a stretch to say that this Mandalorian bounty hunter has adopted this little baby and acts as a father to the child. This is contextually significant to the over all story of Star Wars. Now let’s go back to the original trilogy. The plot of the first three movies can boiled down to the relationship between our main character Luke sky walker and his father Darth Vader. The audience can live through and relate to the story through Luke as he grapples with his father. He specifically has to grapple with the sins of his father how Darth Vader committed evils acts the son doesn’t want to follow in the footsteps of the father and go down a righteous path.
The father also tries to corrupt the son as if it were destiny that they were meant to walk the same path. The son ends up redeeming the father and proves that even the most corrupted people can choose to come to the good side. A story as old as time and a good lesson learned by all. Now lets fast forward fourth years in our time but five years in their time and we are given the story of the Mandalorian bounty hunter and his child. The audience is made to relate to Din Djarin as he goes on his adventures and raises his baby. We love to watch the bounty hunter make his way in the world trying to make good choices and mold the child into a good adult. Now on an essential level the relationship between Luke and Darth Vader is the same relationship between Mando and baby yoda. A relationship between father and son but here’s where the evolution is. The viewpoint character has changed from son to father. Luke portrays the son as a protagonist and Mando portrays the father in his own story. In the old days the Star Wars audience was mostly made up of children who could relate to Luke. Identify with this young man and his troubles with his father. They relate to the son.
But time passed and those fans grew up. The fans became more mature and maybe even some of them became parents themselves. So they are in a prime situation to relate to a character that goes through parental drama. So star wars was in a prime position to oblige. Now a perfect character to through into the show is Boba Fett. From what little we’ve seen Boba’s relationship to his father is very vital to him. He follows his father’s path becoming a mandalorian bounty hunter. He wears his fathers armor, flies his fathers ship and does his fathers job. There are even points when he tries to avenge his father’s death. The relationship between Boba and his father is very static and stagnant. Boba tries to be exactly like his father not doing better or taking a different path. Boba and Jango take the same path and their path even ends the same way. They both die fighting. This relationship acts as a foil to the main father son relationships in Star Wars. Boba is not like Luke because he doesn’t feel conflict to change his path. Jango isn’t like Din Djarin because he doesn’t want to radically change his ways for the betterment of his son. One could even say that relationship is the worst case scenario of what a father son relationship can be. Patterns of behavior are repeated throughout the generations. The cycle of violence that encapsulated them both keeps turning and swallowing them up. The end result is degradation and stagnation. Luke and Din Djarin break the cycle of violence that has tried to swallow them up and do damage to their family members. Luke succeeded in this and maybe as the show goes on the Mandalorian will succeed and save baby yoda. This story tells as that a relationship between a father and a son is important. This is the way.

Just as an addition I thought I'd give you guys an update. I've just started my third book in the magic metal war saga. I'm really excited to write this third instalment but some things might get in the way. The Covid 19 pandemic is coming to an end as more people get vaccinated. Things are opening up and getting better. Also my day job has me going back into the office full time so that is definitely going to put a damper on my writing. I'm also getting more opportunities to do stand up so that's also going to take a big chunk of my time. With all this starting up I do have some concerns about being able to finish writing my third book. I'll try to keep you guys updated on how it's going but as many of us have learned the hard way recently the future is impossible to predict.

Attention all! Attention everybody! I got some good news for you. My second fantasy novel has been published and is available now on amazon. It's called the Well of Destruction. It's a sequel to my first book the Universe Key. It picks up right where the first book left off following the grand adventures of Brilan Clara, Ignis and more. We also get introduced to a cavalcade of new characters as they navigate a plot filled with mystery, action, intrigue and a whole lot more. I wanted to put this book out in late 2020. I finished up the writing in maybe September of 2020 and the editing process took me way too long. So in the future I'm going to work on streamlining my editing process.
Aside from that I think this is one of the best things I've written so far. I'm definitely excited about this new book expands the world and themes that I set forth in the Universe Key. This is my second book in the Magic Metal War series. There's going to a third book in this series. I don't know when the third book will be out but my most optimistic predictions would say that maybe the end of 2022 but for now have fun digging into all the good parts of the Well of Destruction. Available here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092P78SKJ