The title is from a live blog entry on The Guardian website on the 10th of June. The post quoted Trump spreading a conspiracy theory that the Governor of California and the Mayor of LA had paid protestors to cause trouble. The not-so-subtle phrasing makes it quite clear what the ...

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This is a weird one to encapsulate, but it was based on an idea I had while re-watching Star Trek the Next Generation and I had to explore it with my fellow Quackcasters, Banes and ...

A plague has ravaged the land and a small band of friends are attempting a very unorthodox method to combat it. Very unorthodox indeed… One of them agreed to sacrifice themself so they they could call on the aid of a demon! But will the demon live up to it ...

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 ...

Your landscape is in decay
Your mind’s full of betrayal
When all hopes down and through
Your heart calls out to you
Sail your mind on a masterpiece
Loose yourself to the paints of these
The straps from your head points to your salvation

Norristown, Pennsylvania, April 22nd, 1989. It is a sad day for Simon and no fun, being a member of A Clockwork Orange parody band, Durango 95, with the rowdy, crowded audiences that would have, “booed Bowie in Cleveland.” Durango 95 is heading into a breakup. Simon reunites at a diner ...

It may just be my impression, but usually when a story is set in a dystopian setting, the dystopia is played straight. However, when the characters encounter or start off in a utopian setting, they almost always will end up realizing that the utopia is actually a mirage, and in ...

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Happy Easter! Well that was Sunday, but happy Easter anyway. In honour of that yearly and ancient ritual holiday that has its roots in the rebirth of spring in the northern hemisphere our Quackcast is ...

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Welcome to another DD Quackcast! We were going to discuss Ad Hoc rationalisations and also “what happens AFTER you take over the world” but both topics were waaaay too trumpish and we didn't feel ...

Comics and their creators have actually been prominent in the news recently.

There was the comic book creator Rebecca Burke who was was detained in ICE detention facilities in the US for a couple of weeks due to some problems with the type of visa she was trying to enter ...