Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

Superman has been my favorite superhero most of my life, but recently I have become a much larger fan of Batman. The fundamental reason is that Batman is human and is flawed. The problem with an omnipotent character is that it is nearly impossible to devise a believable threat. If you look at Superman and consider what he did in the first movie, anytime there is any real trouble, Superman could just fly around the planet a couple of times until he got it all right again. That really takes the fun out of it.

In my book, The Agency Delta, I came to a point in the story that I nearly quit writing. It was because I had given so many of the primary characters access to something that made it very difficult for me to provide a believable threat. I spent several nights agonizing over how to write around the problem, but each solution created new problems. Late one night the answer finally came as if lightning had struck my brain (what movie is that line from?).

Chapter 40 is the answer to the omnipotence problem in The Agency Delta.