Today’s Character Deep Dive is on an antagonist!
We’re looking at Raidon Yamamura from Used Books by the amazingly proliferate Vickie Boutwell!
Used Books is a crime-noir thriller involving the story of Kaida, an ex-assassin from a highly dangerous network of organized crime and the different people surrounding ...

Character Deep Dive: Raidon from Used Books
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 20, 2024Quackcast 696 - Tropes
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We're talking about tropes that we like hate. Some we brought up were conspiracy theories, especially the ones that involve a whiteboard where all the info and photos stuck on there are connected by red string ...
Cynicism
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, July 14, 2024
Cynicism. That is the inclination to believe that people are motivated in large by their self-interest and therefore cannot be trusted – at least not initially. I’ve found myself – as I’ve gotten older and encountered many different acquaintances and personal relations in my younger years – that I’ve become ...
Art, Communication, and Comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 12, 2024
Comics are one of the most effective forms of art.
The most important part of all art is communication. It's often overlooked in favour of “meaning” but without the ability to effectively communicate that meaning, the meaning becomes meaningless. Concepts and manifestos are utterly inadequate because they usually become ...
Quackcast 695 - Pop Culture
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 9, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Pop-Culture, and the way it's always changing… We fall in love with pop culture but it's constantly changing and new pop culture is always being created, which means that as time goes on less and ...
Preachy Comics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:58AM, July 6, 2024
Last night I had an interesting conversation with one of my favorite creators (you know who you are) about what makes a webcomic (or comic, or movie, or book, anything applies) preachy. Preachy as in trying to force an agenda, or ideology, or outlook down the audience's throat whether ...
Character Wants - The Next Level
Banes at 12:00AM, June 27, 2024
Better Call Saul is the prequel series to Breaking Bad. Both shows are incredible, and probably my two favorite shows. The characters in these shows, especially Better Call Saul, have great nuance to them, and most of them have multiple “wants” or “needs” that are in opposition to each other ...