I used to take the side of the cheerful, positive, and heroic protagonist in films and comics when I was much younger. As I got older, I wised up to the idea that being a protagonist is relative to biases of the storyteller. Now I rewatch those same films with ...

The next exit on your right is Stainless City where ordinary people live in a fantastical world. This is a place where superheroes and supervillains actually grow old past their prime and die.

In fact, the death of a superhero is the major plot point in the story. In an ...

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Today we welcome a dastardly new bad guy alliance between three powerful super villains of Duck City: Ozone Evil, Pit Dastardly, and Abt Destruction! In their pirate lair aboard the bottomless pirate ship, the trio revel in their shared passion for bottomlessnessnessnessitude. Abt and Pit go on to ...

“Handsome” Chris Sly and Ransom Lee Givens are two henchmen for hire. That is, supervillains phone up the henchmen agency and Handsome and Ransom are then assigned to some megalomaniacal fellow bent on doing naughty things. Being a henchman is hard work, you have to face off against vicious hero ...

Ben Saber is truly a Hero of our time! This magnificent warrior for truth, justice, and the American way strides like a colossus through… stuff… and battles evil and things all the time, Right? The guy is just cool, accept it. Ben Saber is a snappy dresser, he's cultured ...

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What are the Do's and Do Not Do's when it comes to creating protagonists and antagonists??? For Quackcast 87 we asked for people's opinions on making heroes and villains, we asked who are some of your fave heroes and villains? What makes your own characters ...

Who loves a good wild-west story? And who loves a good sci-fi story? Well gather ‘round, because Augustos has got your wild west, your robots, your over-the-top villains, your smarmy protagonist brothers with a mysterious and unsettling past in a high-security research facility…. Perhaps that is the cause of Rave ...

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Banes and Ozoneocean round off the topic of superheroes, beating that wonderhorse to death well and truly. There's a lot of reminiscing here about ancient superhero pop-culture and along the way we discuss silver age and golden age comics, supervillains, second stringer superheroes and why the remain ...

The world of the Ultranimus is a strange one. Is it a game, dream or reality? No one knows for sure… but the important thang is that Gofero needs to become a knight with the help of a magic pretty bow or his fat stupid dragon freind so he can ...

B.A.S.O. is a big-ass space opera. It has heroes and villains, space marines and other worlds, high tech and low morals. Each piece of the story is presented in 6-page chapters following specific protagonists: Stavlov, stranded on a hostile water planet; Margery, who'll do anything for ...