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Number 11.
This week we have a charming bald dwarf from the world of Magical Misfits. Headmaster at the institute, studying the magical mythical race called humans that once walked the lands of Terr. Magical Misfits has been a mainstay at Drunk Duck for ...
The Comedy Balloon
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 27, 2022
I watched a reunion interview from a few years ago. It was the cast of the old sitcom “Family Ties”. All very likable people and I remember quoting so many lines from this show when I was a kid.
Michael J. Fox mentioned the great presence that Justine Bateman brought ...
The Fae
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 22, 2022
Usually when we think about fairies, the mind goes to tiny beautiful girls with butterfly wings and a ton of sparkles. At their most threatening, we got the token fiesty Tinkerbell.
Or do we?
For me, the world of the fae and fairies is a fascinatingly surreal, dangerous, occult world ...
Psychic Powers
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 20, 2022
Psychic Powers
Comics and fiction in general has presented to us many fascinating concepts that has kept our imagination hungering for more. Whether it be time travel or magic or technology lightyears ahead of our current frame of comprehension. But one concept in particular that always gets me hungering for ...
The Message in Stories
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 15, 2022
There is no story without a theme. Even when written without anything prepared in terms of a message, a story will always give people things to think about and messages drawn from how the story was set up and how it was resolved (if at all).
So I don't ...
Everyman Heroes
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 13, 2022
Critics, professional or not, identified a trend in many of the…lesser regarded manga and anime series.
It's the “everyman hero”.
This school of thought is that to make a lead character who is identifiable to everyone in the readership or audience. So the lead will be unremarkable, and ...
Horror within beauty
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 8, 2022
This trope might come in several different packages, but it always involves the same stages: a presence (a character, an apparition, an item, a painting, etc) appears to be perfect, gorgeous, stunningly beautiful, angelic in every way relevant. Then suddenly or gradually, this beauty dissolves into nightmarish horror: the character ...