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As I write this, one Boston bomber is dead and the other is armed, dangerous and loose as a massive citywide manhunt seems underway. I think everyone up at this hour is following the story intently.

I do know that this kind of situation sometimes makes the kind of escapist fiction I write a bit harder. I like tales of grand heroes and terrible villains, but with them come a heightening of reality that makes it easy sometimes to forget the destruction that goes along with it. I have destroyed cities, toppled mountains and set up bodycounts in the dozens over the course of years of writing now. Sometimes it is hard to continue down that vein when the daily news makes it all too clear what the toll of such devastation can be.

“Deserted” has plenty of gunplay, John Woo style.

At the same time, one thing I love about New Pulp and super powered fiction is that no matter how bad the world gets around the characters of that world, a hero always exists to right the wrongs and bring justice to evil. That is the bright point of any heroic fiction I suppose, whether it be my own Living Legends or the blockbuster Avengers film franchise.

At the end of the day, I just find that sometimes the world makes it hard to write a terrible villain out to blow up a city when it seems that all too real villains are hellbent on doing something similar. Of course, that is why the world gives us multiple genres.

For example, sports pulp. On Monday, I will give everyone an update on my current project, Rosie the Ripper.