{"id":4490,"date":"2012-10-29T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2012-10-28T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:51:28","slug":"x-is-for-xavier-desmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"X is for Xavier Desmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

X is for Xavier Desmond – from Wild Cards<\/em> by George R. R. Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Well, this is for sure one of my least favorite AlphaBooks illos. First off, I don’t really like the drawing very much. My wife was out of town this past weekend and the extra child-wrangling took a lot of my sketching time that I might have used for a second draft of this one. Additionally, in order to get an “X” subject, I wound up breaking my self-imposed rule of using only characters from books I’ve actually read.\u00a0 I foolishly used up Harry Potter<\/em> as a source with Luna Lovegood; I should have held out and done her father, Xeno Lovegood, for “X.”<\/p>\n

Anyway… Wild Cards<\/em> is one of those “shared universe” projects were different writers write short stories that take place in the same fictional universe.\u00a0 You can read about it here<\/a>. It’s set in an alternate post-WWII U.S. where an alien virus causes some of the people it infects to mutate–as with Xavier here who winds up sprouting an elephant-like trunk with a seven-fingered hand at the end of it.<\/p>\n

Next week: \u201cY\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

You can find all the AlphaBooks entries to-date at the AlphaBooks tumblr:\u00a0http:\/\/alphabooks.tumblr.com<\/a>. You can also follow many of the entries as they\u2019re posted in real-time by\u00a0following the #AlphaBooks hashtag on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0on Mondays.<\/em><\/p>\n

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X is for Xavier Desmond – from Wild Cards by George R. R. Martin Well, this is for sure one of my least favorite AlphaBooks illos. First off, I don’t really like the drawing very much. My wife was out of town this past weekend and the extra child-wrangling took a lot of my sketching … <\/p>\n

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