The Outbreak is a chaotic, frenetic, frenzy of non-stop action! The fight scenes are constant in this world of zombie apocalypse. The hardcore Rock, crafty Doc, and crazed Hobart are more than a match for the hordes of zombies and mad Asshats, roaming the wastelands. Their life is a constant ...
Quackcast 684 - The hero is dead?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 23, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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What happens when the hero dies? Especially when it's early on in the story… do things fall apart or does someone else take over? Our topic is about a story style where you establish that a ...
Character Deep Dive: Molly Lusc
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 20, 2024
Today’s Character Deep Dive is on the intriguing Molly Lusc from the comic Molly Lusc by Andreas Helixfinger!
Molly Lusc is a straight up noir comic complete with an origin story… sort of… of the main character and primary detective Molly Lusc. It has a lot of the noir ...
The Understudy Hero
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 18, 2024
There's nothing more shocking than when the hero dies …at the beginning.
Don't worry, Banes isn't dead! I'm just standing in for him this week, he will return! This is only about fictional main characters that didn't get the memo they should reserve their death ...
Quackcast 683 - Hot for Teacher
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 16, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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This week it's a short cast because my computer broke and we wasted time trying to fix it!
We're chatting about teachers in fiction, a topic inspired by Banes' newspost on the subject. There have ...
Top Five Tales of Teaching
Banes at 12:00AM, April 11, 2024
teacher, teacher, can you teach me –
I was revisiting a classic movie, one of the ones on this list, in the past week or so, and thinking of the archetypal teacher/student dynamic in fiction.
So, in line with my Top Five Tales of Bands from last year, here's ...
Defying Death
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 30, 2024
For a huge chuck of Christians around the world, today is Resurrection Day (or Good Saturday), which is easily one of the most important days in the Christian calendar, no matter when you observe it. For those that do, therefore, I hope you have the happiest one yet, and since ...
Quackcast 680 - Intelligence in Fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 26, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Today we're talking about the depiction of “intelligence” in fiction! There are a lot of ways this shows up: the genius detective who can understand any clue and uncover any lie, the amazing doctor who can ...
Poetry Time 66: The Attempt
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, March 24, 2024
A long divorce of steel
A longing between red offices
To become a masterpiece to appeal
A coming between bled offices
Some dreaming left of a life to zeal
A dreaming between dead offices
NaaN (Now, always and Never)
Character Deep Dive: Stringy from Stringy and Mopy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 16, 2024
Today we’re tackling Stringy from the action-packed comic Stringy and Mopy by MegaRdaniels!
As with every character deep dive, I seek to do as thorough an analysis as possible with what I’m given for the character requested. (By the way you can sign up here if you want ...