I was tempted to write about something easy and non-controversial this week, but then decided I would just keep being me. At least this post has something to do with comics, and current news. I'm genuinely interested in what people have to say on this topic, as it it ...

Rush has become a monster, savage, driven by animal instinct for survival, by fear, and dominance. His power is immeasurable, unaccountable, unstoppable! Born a poor slave, the lowest of the low, he faced terrible abuse and trauma beyond imagining. Escaping to the wilderness, left alone with the horrors and monsters ...

Photo: “Mies Couch”. Drawn by Plymayer. (January 2025)

I rewatched two-thirds of Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, skipping over the first film of the series to focus on the latter two. The trilogy consists of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight each film spaced roughly a decade apart. The ...

There's nothing more frustrating when a character dies from a situation that had no reason occuring except perhaps that the writers wanted to be edgy and make the story have more gravitas with a random death that's forced into the plot.

I've talked often over the years ...

The quaint village of Qebl is reached by sea. It seems a normal enough place, if a bit sleepy. It's a stop on the journey to The Big Top, a place where clowns go to train and get jobs, like an adventurer's guild if you will. Clowns in ...

Photo: “-Spring- Ch.4: Page 63”. Imago Nebraska created by InkyMoondrop. (December 2024)

CHAPTER COMPLETION MILESTONES

Chapter Four Comes to a Close in Imago, Nebraska

InkyMoondrop writes:

“Hey there! Time for another milestone announcement, thank you in advance! Imago, Nebraska's 4th chapter concludes on the 29th (Sunday) with the ...

It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!

The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...

Nine. I see the light burning to darkness.
All so swiftly. All so blindly.
Eight. I hear the alarm screaming to deafness.
All so widely. All so loudly.
Seven. I taste the medicine spoiling to sickness.
All so queasily. All so badly.
Six. I sense the odour stinking to foulness ...

How do you make a clever character stupid?

You give them an infatuation. A fixation. Something that completely overrides their critical thinking and better judgment. Something that drives them nuts like a switch is thrown.

And when that happens, they're dumber than a bag of rocks. (And they're ...

I've been VERY slowly working on new comics ideas…way too many of them…for several years now. One of the decisions for me is what kind of STYLE the comic should be.

To be clear, I'm not a phenomenal artist, to say the least. So i don ...