Today’s Character Deep Dive is on an antagonist!

We’re looking at Raidon Yamamura from Used Books by the amazingly proliferate Vickie Boutwell!

Used Books is a crime-noir thriller involving the story of Kaida, an ex-assassin from a highly dangerous network of organized crime and the different people surrounding ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. We return to our workshop series this week. First, some housekeeping.

The first workshop was spread across two posts; one to gather your thoughts and introduce the comic, and the second to cover ...

I have a friend who's told me, on and off, about the movie/book/comic series he's working on. I noticed at one point that he had a tendency to add in more and more characters, plots, and details that were going to show up in the project ...

What would you do if you had psychokinetic powers? They can be a very dangerous thing if used wrongly… Three nerdy teens living in a very vicious part of town suffer horrible bullying. But they have special abilities their bullies don't know anything about. Those bullies are about to ...

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We're talking about tropes that we like hate. Some we brought up were conspiracy theories, especially the ones that involve a whiteboard where all the info and photos stuck on there are connected by red string ...

Photo: “#351d Just Wanna Do Epilogues Part Seventeen”. Ripping Off King Arthur by Arspitzer. (June 2024)

Last Ripping Off King Arthur Strip Will Be Posted, Monday, July 15, 2024.

Arspitzer writes:

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Just wanted to let you know that the final Ripping Off King Arthur strip will be posted on ...

Cynicism. That is the inclination to believe that people are motivated in large by their self-interest and therefore cannot be trusted – at least not initially. I’ve found myself – as I’ve gotten older and encountered many different acquaintances and personal relations in my younger years – that I’ve become ...

I recently got married and for our honeymoon, my newly anointed husband convinced me that it would be more than well spent playing Baldur's Gate 3. For a whole week, we sequestered ourselves in the study, turned off our phones, rigged out our monitors and couch co-oped our way ...

The Anti Continuity

Last time I brought up the ‘standalone episode series’ and the ‘serialized episodes’ approach.

Used Books mentioned Anthologies, which is (kind of) the anti-continuity approach. I love anthologies, and have contributed to a few over the years.

Nothing but respect to The Twilight Zone, one of the ...

Miss Oaktree is burned out from overwork and has been ordered to take a much needed vacation with hotel plus amenities paid in full, courtesy of her boss. Greeted by a blond bellboy, who holds various job titles around the hotel, from concierge to tiki stand bartender to taxi driver ...