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If I recall correctly, the anime for DBZ hit the states before the original Dragonball (even though the manga arrived "in the proper sequence") so you are quite likely not alone in this.

The scammers are out in force. Keep getting a bunch of "job offers" that either want a fee upfront, tell me NOTHING about the client, just hyped up benefits that no reasonable company would pay for anyone below mid-tier executives, or want me to buy hardware and/or software to perform the job...

There are already services doing this - though about 2/3 of them are scams. Seriously (even had one of them offer me an editing job ... then tried to get me to by about 10K USD in hardware and software). I would do some research as to what they are asking and try to undercut it. If I had to...

One of the first cartoons I remember seeing was technically anime - Kimba the White Lion, which was in an hour block with Speed Racer. Did not see much more until local channels started "fighting" with it with the kind of mangled but still cool American version of Robotech on one, and Battle of...

In visual forms (especially animation) it is kind of cool. Heck, seeing Doomsday take down the entire Justice League second string with one hand literally tied behind his back was kind of cool. In text stories, some of the "cool factor" is left more to the imagination and kind of goes away and...

There is a fun little segment of "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" that kind of deals with this. And then again, there was that one North American Aboriginal tribe (my teacher just remember the quote, not the source) who, when a shaman was asked: "But then is a rock a person?" said: "Not...

Seriously doubt it but honestly won't know until it's over, and by then its too late.

Eh - when I was a kid one of my favorite cartoons (and even at six, I knew the physics was ... wonky at least) was "Rocket Robin Hood" so...

Been a while since I read it but didn't Joseph Halderman's "The Forever War" have a bit like this? Also taking this idea to a weird extreme, I could easily see the "knights" and "samurai" being Mecha battling over the resources on a newly discovered world...

If I can come up with something over the weekend I will... if not, good luck to everyone who did get something together for this!

Right now I use the method that, allegedly, both Piers Anthony and Isaac Asimov used: Write whenever you get think of something TO write. You can set aside time or just impulsively stop doing whatever you were doing to write for a bit then go back. Keep several projects ongoing so that if you...

Ah - so one of the stories I am working on has a "reverse dungeon core" bit (that was supposed to be one chapter and so far has grown to four)...

Historical Trough - variant of troll. AD&D mixed the Svart-Alfer (Dark Elf) and Trough of Scandinavian folklore into the Drow (and then added the Xvart in as well). If I use Drow in fiction (or gaming) it is the AD&D kind because those are what I know best - matriarchal, theocratic society...

Hmm... how many of these have either male character in female body or the reverse? Might justify this kind of cover "bait and switch" (one of the stories I am working on has a male inhabiting the body of his alternate universe self and the second biggest difference between them in gender; more...

Check with my wife and see what she suggests. Unless it is my own body - then contact the Orphan Black people as things went wonky again...

Great news! Wish I could find one as good as my last one was before it went fully remote (the first full year remote was pretty great too, then things started shuffling around...) Or just a job, really...

If an author is ever 100% happy with their work ... they are probably absolutely wrong about it being done. Seriously I do not know of any author who cannot find flaws in their own work who is actually worth reading (the few who insist they have no flaws are best avoided). Even after many...

Ah but were you here LAST? THAT is the key. And the guardian of the gate. Ia Ia, Yog... er... sorry about that.

Maybe a point or two (1-2% of profits) for a cover, up to 10% for multiple pieces. I would see the commission as a "marketing expense" (and if the work does not sell, it was a "donation to the effort"...). I kind of thought that until I had an online conversation with someone who was on the...

Mercifully I read Gatsby after trudging through the morass that was "Portrait of a Lady" and I have a fondness for the 1920s aesthetic, but I do remember the climax being ... well... anticlimactic...