Tag: Superhero

October 9, 2014

Quote – Cape Doesn’t Make A Hero

“I may wear a cape, but that doesn’t make me a hero.” – Steve Vernon – The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass in Nothing to Lose (Nocturne Press, 2007)

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December 26, 2013

DIY Superhero Bookmarks

If you are looking to spice up your bookmark experience, no one is better equipped to hold your page than a superhero. I made these bookmarks out of craft foam. Feel free to adapt them for yourself. Iron Man (Red and Yellow craft foam… and if you overlap the colours, he can perch at the top of your book) Blue...

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March 28, 2013

Superhero Complex(ity)

A review of Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories (edited by Claude Lalumiere and Camille Alexa, Tyche Books LTD, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille There has been a recent increase in the public interest in the superhero genre with increasing numbers of superhero movies, increasing numbers of people wearing superhero related merchandise and increasingly larger population groups getting excited about the figure...

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March 26, 2013

Unmasked

A review of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s “Iron Justice Versus the Fiends of Evil” (in Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories Ed. Claude Lalumiere and Camille Alexa, Tyche Books LTD., 2013) Many superhero stories in the golden age of comics tended to focus on young, white, straight, able-bodied men. Silvia Moreno-Garcia seeks to disrupt that exclusionary notion of the ‘regular’ superhero by injecting...

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December 3, 2012

Supernatural Superhero Secrets

A Review of D D Barant’s Death Blows (St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2010). By Derek Newman-Stille Death Blows will be the second of DD Barant’s The Bloodhound Files novels that I will have reviewed. You can check out the review of book one by clicking on DD Barant in the Tags section. In a world where everyone has supernatural powers, there...

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October 8, 2012

Montreal Superhero Fights for Diversity

A review of Hochelaga and Sons by Claude Lalumiere (in Objects of Worship, Chizine, Toronto, 2009) By Derek Newman-Stille I have always thought that Canada needs more superheroes and Claude Lalumiere answered my wishes with Hochelaga and Sons. Hochelaga is a very typically Canadian hero. He is not interested in fighting the big battles of the world, but is interested...

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September 21, 2012

True Norse Strong and Free…

A Review of Chadwick Ginther’s Thunder Road(Raven Stone, Forthcoming 2012) By Derek Newman-Stille Had I not known that this was his debut novel, I would have thought that Chadwick Ginther’s Thunder Road was written by an experienced novelist. His characters were well developed, his plot strong and thought provoking. After reading the first two chapters, I flipped back to the...

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August 30, 2012

Everyone Hides Behind Their Masks, Whether They Are Superheroes or Psychiatrists

A Review of Steve Vernon’s The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass in Nothing to Lose (Nocturne Press, 2007) By Derek Newman-Stille What does pain do to a person? In what way is victimhood contagious? Asks Steve Vernon in his short story The Glint of Moonlight on Broken Glass.  Vernon’s story is a superhero story, but one that is not...

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August 1, 2012

Interview with Claude Lalumiere

An Interview with Claude Lalumiere by Derek Newman-Stille This past weekend, Speculating Canada had the opportunity to interview Canadian author Claude Lalumiere. I want to express my thanks to Mr. Lalumiere for taking the time to talk to our readers and share some of his insights about writing, about identity, and about the worlds he creates. I will let him...

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July 12, 2012

Canadian Superheroes Volume in Progress

I am excited to discover that Claude Lalumiere is working on a volume of Canadian superhero stories with Camille Alexa titled Masked Mosaic. Lalumiere has written several stories on the Canadian superheroic including Hochalga and Sons (from Objects of Worship ChiZine 2009) about a Jewish victim of the holocaust who, due to Nazi experimentation became a superhero whose goal is...

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