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Main characters with main character syndrome? What is main character syndrome? Well the way we're dealing with it here it's normally a snide criticism you level and someone who seems to think the world revolves ...

Notice of JohnCelestri Being Invited as a Featured Guest at Lexington Comic Con This Year


Photo: “JohnCelestri to be Featured Guest at Lexington Comic and Toy Con This Year”. (January 2025)

John Celestri writes:

“Hi, and Happy New Year to you!



I’ve been invited to the Lexington Comic -

Here ...

In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.

An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...

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Non-linear stories are a different way of telling a tale. There are many famous examples (Pulp fiction, Mulholland Drive etc), where the sequence of events isn't in strict chronological order. This style has gained a false ...

I'm Out of Order? You're Out of Order! - Nonlinear storytelling

I finally watched Strange Darling the other night. I think I saw part of a review at some point and dipped out before it could be spoiled.

And boy howdy, THAT'S the way to see Strange Darling ...

A mysterious plague rips through a small village and wipes out every single soul apart for a lone, lost survivor. The boy is taken in by a roving band of plague doctors and given a new start in life, learning medicine. This starts a whole new chapter for him… but ...

My hearing was not in my surroundings but somewhere else.
I could hear a wailing turning to howling. Howling turning to roaring.

My mind stepping ajar into a place previously unsensored. Uncharted, Unamed. Unknown.
I am the creatureless feature of a parallell seizure, persisting the law for a self-procedure
That ...

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Today we have onboard with us our resident theme maker, our classic composer and musical genius! He does all the DD comic inspired themes that regularly appear on the Quackcast and has done so for the last ...

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We have a space opening up here on Fridays. And though I'll miss hpkomics' Panel by Panel feature, with this spot available we thought we'd try something new.

But what to do? In this new world of exponentially expanding technology, including visual arts and animation, AI and ...

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This week we're talking the development of weapons, tactics and armour over the millennia. This is a fun little overview of everything from ancient stone weapons, to bronze, to iron, steel, guns, tanks, and jet-fighters and ...