I've spent a lot of this year dealing with the fallout of the death of a close friend. For whatever reason he picked as his executor a woman that none of the rest of his friends and family get along with. Actually, that's downplaying it. Most of them ...

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It seems like every single “badass” in TV, Movies, books and comics is “ex-special forces” or something like it these days. It's become a meaningless cliche. Writers use it as a shortcut to show ...

Photo: “Imago, Nebraska: The Book of Summer (Character Promo)”. Imago, Nebraska created by InkyMoondrop. (May 2025)

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“Hey! :)

So on the 3rd of June (next week) Imago, Nebraska's 9th Chapter is done publishing, which means The Book of Spring arrived to its final chapter and emotional conclusion and ...

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Sometimes you get hooked into things, you become a fan and you wonder how you got there. A while ago you were laughing at those dorky, obsessed fans over there and now suddenly you're ...

I don't really have much to say when it comes to balloon placement, except that it's a balancing act: speech balloons must be looked at but not really be ‘seen’. In the sense that the balloons shouldn't obstruct the reader of the webcomic from easily reading the ...

The old 70s sitcom, Happy Days, is a mine of tropes. It's where we get the phrase “Jump the Shark” as there was an episode where The Fonz water-skied over a shark for some reason. Happy Days was also a spin-off generator, giving us Laverne and Shirley, Mork and ...

June Santiago, Clover Cristina Condray, and Simone are three best friends living in a fantastical world filled with retro arcades and chonky, gigantic winged rabbits. An avid reader of comics, June is in love with comic book superhero, Garlic Man, whom she wishes to marry one day. While playing games ...

Photo: “-Spring- Ch.8: Page 75 ”. Imago, Nebraska, created by InkyMoondrop. (May 2025)

InkyMoondrop writes:

“Hi again!

A Chapter 8 ending announcement for Imago, Nebraska.

It should end this week, so a new chapter begins by Monday. There's only two left from the first Book and the second Book ...

But not, it would seem, Alliance Entertainment (AENT). If you haven't been following the saga, which has had more twists and turns than a spy novel, it all began in January of this year when Diamond Distributors, one of the world's biggest distributors of actual physical copies of ...

Now, the good Professor always follows up his “Good News, Everyone” with decidedly bad news. But for this week, that can wait. And I was going to spend the first part of this newspost looking at some of the more depressing stories about books from around the world, but end ...