EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD WEBMASTER BUT WAS AFRAID TO ASK!
NAME: Jeffrey Carlton Branch
BIRTHDATE: January 12, 1959
BIRTH SIGN: "Hospital" (HA! I've always wanted to pull that gag!)
HOMETOWN: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
HEIGHT: 6-2
WEIGHT: 215 pounds (I need to lose some of that!!!)
HAIR: Black
EYES: Brown
BLOOD TYPE: A plus
FAVORITE COLOR: Purple
CURRENT JOB: Personnel Clerk, Federal Govenment
FAVORITE FOOD: Cheesesteaks, soft pretzels, water ice (After all, I live in Philadelphia, and that's our diet!!)
LEAST FAVORITE FOOD: Cream cheese, it's like eating liquid soap!
FAVORITE SPORT: Check out the sweatshirt for a clue!
HOBBIES: Writing, collecting comic books, anime and manga
LIKES: Watching sports on TV (Too expensive to see 'em live!); working on the website; playing movies on my home theater; music from the 60's, 70's and 80's; monster movies; Star Trek
DISLIKES: War, violence, prejudice, bigotry, politics, rap music, reality shows, the Dallas Cowboys
STRENGTHS: A good imagination for writing, doesn't litter, respectful of my elders, honest, hard working, infinitely patient
WEAKNESSES: Junk food (see WEIGHT), occasionally keeps a cluttered house
AMBITION 1: To win my state lottery for some obscene amount of money and retire
AMBITION 2: To visit Japan, the birthplace of anime!
AMBITION 3: To get an autographed picture of Sailor Moon from Naoko Takeuchi
FAVORITE SCOUT: Sailor Jupiter (She can cook like Emeril one minute, then kick ass like Jet Li the next!!!)
WHY I WRITE FAN FICTION: It's a very good outlet for my creative energies. And it's giving me much needed experience if I should ever decide to write a novel one day
FAVORITE STORY I'VE WRITTEN: "To Live And Die In Tokyo". Beyond the action, suspense, violence, and Batman as a guest star, this story was a psychological drama that took sweet and gentle Amy down the dark road of insanity. Readers saw Amy unleash the inner demon that lurks within us all as she gave in to her rage to avenge the death of a friend to where she almost lost her soul and destroyed herself. The ultimate moral of this story was that Amy's heartbreaking tragedy could happen to any of us in the real world if we lost a loved one and were compelled, if not obsessed to seek retribution, be it through legal, or illegal means. The main theme to all my Sailor Moon stories has been the importance of friendship, and TLADIT was a prime example of how far one will go to seek vengeance for a lost friend, even if it meant dying for that cause, as Amy very nearly did in this story. Every aspect of TLADIT worked to perfection, making it a joy to write: the plot, the character interaction, the original Negaverse scheme to turn the world's drug users into bloodthirsty monsters, and my all-time favorite fight scene as the Dark Knight slugged it out with Tuxedo Mask in a real down and dirty slobberknocker! And yeah, I had an absolute blast writing Batman!
FAVORITE VILLIAN: Nikolai Malakov from "Blood on the Moon". I think I've put more work into the demonic 700 year old Russian vampire lord than I had any other villian I've created in my stories to date. I gave this calculating, brooding fiend a history, a personality, a deadly obsession that drove him, and a malice that could put fear into anyone. I sought to make Malakov dark. cold and utterly menacing on a level close to that of Dracula himself. The most important component of the plotline which I developed early on was Malakov's uncanny likeness to Nephlyte, former general to Queen Beryl, and Molly's murdered lover, and how he led Serena's doomed friend to her death, and rebirth as one of the undead as part of his mad scheme to resurrect the ancient, all-powerful horror, Kiragama.
FAVORITE SUPPORTING CHARACTER: Carlo Falcone from "To Live And Die In Tokyo". Falcone was the vicious Gotham City mobster who was mixed up in a Mafia-Yakuza plot to take over the drug trade in America, unaware that his partner, Hiroyuki Tomba was, in reality, an sleeper agent from the Negaverse who was using Falcone and the Mob as part of a scheme to foment worldwide chaos via a monster creating mutagen. Falcone was an interesting character to craft, he was violent, dangerous, but at the same time, displayed a strong sense of honor, admiration for the Japanese people, and later on proved to be no one to mess with after he learned of Tomba's betrayal, making him a key character in the story as he helped the Scouts bring the alien down.
PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY: "It's better to try and fail than not to try at all."
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