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Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's ...
Quackcast 617 - Adventuring we go!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 10, 2023Quackcast 613 - 1930
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 13, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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The 1930s were quite a uniquely influential time for a number of reasons. The 1930s were the very last days of the old world before the new ...
A Short Expedition into Sweet Exposition
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2022
I know we've talked about exposition before, but a couple examples popped into my head recently…even though the examples are not recent.
When I was a youngster I loved the Hulk character. Today I remembered a specific issue of that comic, from way back, where the Hulk was ...
The Right Jazz
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 27, 2022
Been dragging my feet writing this Sunday article - among many other things - as I’ve been hit by this latest compulsive obsession of mine to keep rearranging my Youtube library to perfectly push out the distracting vestiges of my past internet media consumption, in order to become more focused in ...
Showing Movement in Comics
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 17, 2022
by Frank Miller
SHOWING MOVEMENT
I was talking to my brother about writing scripts for comics and mentioned that I sometimes forget that what I'm writing can't move. I'd start accidentally writing as if it were a movie script, with characters moving around, then realize that I ...
FEATURED COMIC --> The Faceless Comics Set 1
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 16, 2022
Herein the pages of The Faceless Comics Set 1 holds the first blueprint of a series of stories about inter-dimensional travel, an extensive collection of metal helmets, shrinking ray guns, love, and friendship. Meet the Faceless, Soundless, and Eclipse (the de facto “good guys”) as they go on epic adventures ...
Horror and Technology
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2022
I watched and enjoyed this year's horror movie “Barbarian” awhile back. It starts off as the first AirBnB horror movie - or the first one I've seen, anyway.
It occurred to me that back when cell phones grew into common usage I wondered how horror fiction would deal with ...
Poetry Time 9: The Pledge
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2022
This sunday's poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is The Pledge by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan
If my hands were not to touch your hands, or hold them soft in mine.
If my eyes were cast to darkness, so your beauty they cannot find.
Or see your ...
Does Mechanization Turn Men into Robots or Robots into Men?
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2022
Photo: “Fille Née Sans Mèr (translation ‘Girl Born without Mother’)”. Francis Picabia. 1917.
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” -Herbert George Wells
In one month’s time, I will be attending a lecture detailing the development of ...
Quackcast 592 - Back in MY day!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 19, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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History is happening faster now. With the growth of universal high speed communication and cheap world travel, culture and technology move at unprecedented speeds. Because of these ...