Last year (har har har obligatory New Year's Joke done) I'd started talking about Found Family, one of my favorite tropes in pretty much any narrative work, from movies to novels to comics and webcomics. Found family is when a bunch of characters, usually unrelated and mismatched, end ...

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Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!

This is our first progress update on 2023!
There's not a lot to report at the moment. Alexey has fixed up the news page display so you can go through all the news updates and even listen to the latest Quackcast when you get t ...

Fang is a tough little, speedy, barbarian warrior woman with great big Sonic style hair! She's the last of a proud tribe and a pretty decent thief. But it seems that everyone in the kingdoms wants to get their hands on her. She has a massive bounty on her ...

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Happy 2023! This was the last Quackcast of 2022 and the FIRST Quackcast of 2023! I was recording during 2023 while Tantz, Banes and Pit were still ...

Photo: Book Cover for “The LookyLoo” by Darryl Hughes. (December 2022)

Big News Announcement: Darryl Hughes (aka TheDeeMan) has published a “scary suspenseful coming of age werewolf horror mystery thriller book for kids, teens, and adults”.

Here is what TheDeeMan has to say:

“I just published my first prose book ...

As we approach the end of another year, I had a few ideas about topics related to endings.

If you've read my articles for awhile, you may remember discussions about wants and needs - the plot objective that is more ‘physical’ is the want, and the emotional or thematic pursuit ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!
ThrisbyDude is working on a version of a new logo for the site! The idea will be to rotate through a bunch of logos by different people and use them to celebrate special days or publicise events. I really love what he's come up with ...

Photo: “#900: Most Powerful Beast; The Almighty Lusca.” Drawn by agentny003. My Life as An American Hero 2. (December 2022)

MILESTONE

Agentny003 sent this message:

“Hey, just thought I let you know I completed a 900 page milestone.”

My Life as an American Hero 2 Synopsis:

Three years after the ...

When I was a youngster…and as I got older, too, I was always a big fan of the Super-Team. The X-Men, X-Factor, Alpha Flight, The Avengers…some of these were my favorite comics. And of course, the Super Friends was an old school cartoon that we loved as littl ...