So we love our clever villains, our smooth criminals, the conniving sly characters that use their brains to thwart the heroes and be a real menace. Like the riskiest game of chess, the hero has to match that kind of villain in strategy and smarts as well as determination, prowess ...
Dumb can be dangerous
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 15, 2023No One of Consequence
Banes at 12:00AM, July 13, 2023
One of my favorite tropes (at least I think it's a trope. Not sure how common it is) is the “unknown hero”.
It's when a character who's known to us, the audience, maybe very well, and is at least somewhat important to us.
The character dies and ...
π ANIMALZZzzzzz
lothar at 12:00AM, July 7, 2023
HELLO—
It's summer in the northern hemisphere! …. So hot
Here's some stories about anthropomorphic dudes
Here are the 3:
FIRST one here is a story from 2013 called Grim Dog by Saikiyo
Grim Dog
It's a short story about a couple of cat-like creatures living in a ...
Into and Across the Spiderverse - How to make a good comic book movie
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 1, 2023
It goes without saying that the newly released movie, Across the Spiderverse, is one of the most popular superhero movies. The creators took one of the most divisive iterations of Spiderman, Miles Morales, and made him into a now beloved version of the titular character. They expand the Spider-lore through ...
The Adventures of Adventure Man
Banes at 12:00AM, June 29, 2023
This wasn't the official poster, but the teaser poster, for the Last Crusade. There was a giant
version of it in my local theater before the movie came out. Excitement unbound at the time!
My earliest clear memory of Indiana Jones - or one of his movies - was in a ...
Quackcast 641 - Bodycast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 27, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Injuries, especially to the head can be extremely bad but people are hit over the bonce and knocked out in popculture all the time. In violent sports ...
Quackcast 640 - Aliens
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 20, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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We base our images of aliens in comics on aliens in TV shows and movies mostly, because those are the ones we all know.
But movie aliens ...
Quackcast 639 - Nudity
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 13, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today's topic is Nudity: Nudity in comics, censorship, self censoring, what you can get away with on DD, ratings, nudity on other platforms and how it ...
Character Analysis: Levana from Vampire Girl
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 27, 2023
Itβs been quite a bit since I last made a character deep dive, but since I got a bit more time on my hands, here we are! Todayβs Character Analysis is about Levana from Vampire Girl by Marie Kerns and J_Scarbrough!
So, first things first! Vampire Girl is ...
Orphans
Banes at 12:00AM, May 25, 2023
It never really occurred to me how many of our heroes are orphans.
Superman was the last survivor of a planet that perished. He was adopted by loving Earth parents, but he's one of the iconic orphans in fiction.
His counterpart Batman, of course, lost his parents at an ...