I wandered into one of those gaming shops that specialized in acrylic hobby paint, paintbrushes, and miniature figurine kits while locally window shopping for the holiday. The interaction went like this:

Me: “Hello, do you know of any fantasy table-top role playing games happening in the area?”

Clerk: I am ...

An out of the blue phone call is the catalyst that sends Agnes walking across the city in the middle of the night to check-in on Lulu, a long-lost friend from the past. This impromptu visit involves singing, hot baths, drinking Tiger Tea, catching up on meals, and hanging out ...

Photo: “The Future is Not Set” -Kyle Reese quoting John Connor from The Terminator (1984)

A folded document fell on my lap while turning through the pages of a book I had not glanced through in a year. It was a test print for a brand new printer and the ...

There are six weeks until the end of the year holidays and a stretch of days-off coming soon in November. Let us get started planning for this year’s Secret Santa Gift Art Exchange (early) to increase volunteer sign-ups and have more time to work on submissions.

What is the ...

Three hundred cheers for Stahlberg for reaching the three-hundredth Page Milestone for the comic, Android Blues.

Stahlberg writes:

Hi,
I have a comic page milestone,
I just finished the 300th page of my comic Android Blues.   :)
anyway have a great day, best regards


Android Blues takes place in Hong Kong ...

So I want to talk about the Dread Persephone!

We are familiar with Persephone as the abducted bride of Hades, the floral, pastel-themed, light-hearted girl that brings about Spring and is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of nature and the harvest.

But is it really who she is?

No. No ...

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This year for Halloween we've decided to do another commentary! It's of the 1980s Zombie movie “Return of the Living Dead”. It's extremely 1980s ...

Photo: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 1, No. 285 “Portal’s End”

I stumbled upon a two page-spread that spanned the second and third pages, while flipping through an X-Men comic book from the nineties that I picked up from a local thrift. The comic doubled as a splash page listing ...

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Tantz explains why she really hates a bunch of tropes that are super commonly used in things, stuff like very obvious plot armour for the protagonist so ...

Normally in stories there is the hero vs the villain or the protagonist vs the antagonist. As the audience, we generally expect to root for the hero or the protagonist and hope for the villain's or antagonist's comeuppance.

But there come those times when we find ourselves rooting ...