I just finished a rewatch of The Mandalorian series and one of the things I thought about was the vicious profiteering and scramble for money (or ‘credits’, or valuable metals or what have you) that indicates what kind of economy is at work in that show.
Granted, so far we ...

Star Trek Economics
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2021One is a Tragedy, A Thousand's A Statistic
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2021
The original quote from which the title is derived is attributed to Joseph Stalin. And while it can sound cynical and harsh, it is unfortunately true: the human mind boggles beyond a cut off point when it comes to grasping numbers tangibly, not theoretically. When the numbers become too high ...
Cartooning With Banes - Focal Points, Characters and some such stuff like that
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2021
An advantage of comics as a medium is to be able to use still images to tell the story, and create an impression or feeling in the reader that runs deeper than words can do. Or at least, the images can strengthen the experience and make something people hopefully get ...
Spring Cleaning: Decluttering the Hoard
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2021
It is difficult for me to focus on a drawing project if my desk is in disarray or there is a pile of unsorted objects around me.
I purchase items in multiples. If I see a good ink pen at the office supply store, I pick up multiple four-packs of ...
Mary Jane Had Options
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2021
Photo: Mary Jane “MJ” Watson (played by Kirsten Dunst) and Harry Osborn (played by James Franco) in Spiderman 3 (2007).
Traveling down the memory lane archives has taken me back to watching the Tobey Maguire Spiderman trilogy that was released during the early-2000s.
Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman was my masked ...
Giftwrapped Toxicity
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 16, 2021
There is a gripe that I have when it comes to romance. It might be the reason I don't really like reading romance as a genre, and while I am aware that not all works in the romance genre are like this, there are too many for me to ...
Protagonist, Antagonist and Villain
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2021
Over the past couple weeks I watched and loved Cobra Kai. There are multiple articles that I could write about this show.
It's an ensemble cast, and I guess Johnny and Daniel could be called co-Protagonists. I actually think Johnny is the Protagonist, Daniel the Antagonist and Kreese is ...
I Spent Winter Break Playing that Futuristic Game that Takes Place in the Year 2077
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 11, 2021
Last month, I bit the bullet and downloaded the simulation video game that is at the center of much controversy at the moment because of its performance on older generation console systems. The game in question is Cyberpunk 2077, a game that takes place fifty-seven years in the future where ...
When Nothing Is Normal
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2021
Usually when building a character, we go for their general personality in terms of traits, the routine/general behavior they would display, the routine/general things that would interest them and so on.
If you are writing a slice of life story, or a sitcom style series, or anything that ...