Every year our family are gifted a very nice calendar from one of our relatives. However, it often arrives a couple of months into the year. So, I'm usually tasked with whipping up a temporary couple of months to pin to the door to use until it arrives.
This ...

Days to Remember
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 6, 2025Diamonds Are Forever?
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 20, 2025
Diamond Comic Distributors has gone bankrupt. As someone who once worked in a comic book shop, back in the 80s and 90s, it was something of a shock. I came over all nostalgic for their blue logo. I still have a number of cardboard boxes crammed with comics that have ...
A Fair Playing Field
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2025
Picture credit: Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire
Today (Thursday 6th February) is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, although due to the nature of time zones you will probably be reading this after the day if over for us.
Waitangi is a place in NZ, the name meaning ...
Quackcast 724 - America's Plutocratic classism
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Is there a culture of plutocratic classism in the USA? I'm inspired by Trump's America and how people think that people like Elon Musk and him are above the law because they're rich, while ...
Quackcast 723 - Changing tech and design
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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We're talking about how technology and design changes so much over the years and how that can change things with plot in story and it can also help pinpoint the date of something sometimes better than ...
Character Deep Dive: Vladimir Chekhov
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2024
It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!
The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...
Quackcast 709 - Dragons!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 15, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Dragons are cool, aren't they? That's our subject for today, specifically the giant, monstrous beasties of myth, fantasy, and legend. They can be evil, they can be clever, they can be animalistic and wild, they ...
Character Deep Dive: Raidon from Used Books
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 20, 2024
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 ...
Making Amends
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 1, 2024
So your villain has just made a heel-face turn and is now one of the good guys. Yay!
…not so fast!
The moment where an antagonist turns on their own side and joins that of the protagonists is extremely powerful. But unless it is part of the overall story's ...
Quackcast 689 - One Big Passion and Influence
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 28, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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What was one significant inspiring piece of pop-culture that a massive influence over your creative endeavours? All of us have had many, many different influences over the years but that's certainly NOT what we're interested ...