I was watching The Dead Zone again the other week, and thought that Johnny Smith might be the perfect horror Protagonist.

This movie, and the Stephen King book it's based on, might be a little bit under the radar; I'm not sure how well known it is in ...

what the flock?



Welcome to October proper, and the beginning of our spooky/scary month of articles.

There's a brand of scary movies where the ‘monster’ or whatever is not just one machete-wielding angry frog manchild. Or ravenous shark or alien or some other kind of monster or killer ...

I was just reading one of the original Star Trek Series Bibles. It's actually called the “Writer's Guide” and was a, well, a guide for new writers who were interested in writing a Star Trek script. It's most interesting!

Being very interested in fiction and writing for ...

We love a good revenge story.

The entire journey of a character from victimhood to avenger is one that almost guarantees audience engagement and their rooting for the character on the path of revenge.

The reasoning for that is easy: the character suffered a great grievance that is unlikely to ...

I was thinking about different filmmakers and how varied their processes can be. Stanley Kubrick was famous for doing multiple takes - sometimes dozens of takes and sometimes much more (!)

Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood will do one or two takes and that's it.

On the show Seinfeld, there were two takes ...

Photo: “M.Organ Milestone (Adults Only)”. M.Organ Art by MOrgan. (August 2024)

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M.Organ Art reached 800 pages on Sunday, August 25.



Since the update probably isn't safe for the front page, I've made up a hopefully safe image.



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I'm reading a book that Brent Spiner wrote. It's a comedic noir mystery. In the book, Brent is a version of himself, during the heyday of Star Trek the Next Generation, playing Data. He finds himself stalked by an obsessed fan. It's called “Fan Fiction”.

It got ...

Artistic License


Light spoilers for Act One of Deadpool and Wolverine.


Near the beginning of Deadpool and Wolverine, Deadpool travels the multiverse to find an appropriate
version of Wolverine to bring back to his own reality.
Among others, we see a classic cover from the X-Men comics, the tan-and-brown variation ...

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We chatted about Greek Myths last week and found the subject so interesting that we thought we'd do a part two! So even MORE Greek myth stuff for Quackcast 700.

There are just so many great ...

Group Dynamics


I'm working on putting some teams together for some new comics. Will I ever get to them? Yes, I think so!

Figuring out an ensemble is a long process. At least it is for me.

Before I started my first webcomic, Typical Strange, I spent over a ...