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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm having to write a short speech to give at a friend's memorial service next month, and I'm finding it difficult. It's not the words that I'm struggling with, it's more the entire concept of what I'm doing. So, as a distraction from ...

There is a poem by one of the most interationally famous Greek poets, Konstantinos Kavafis, called Waiting for the Barbarians. I invite you to give it a read (I've linked its translation) but here's the gist in a nutshell: It's about the Romans waiting for the Barbarians ...

Sometimes it may feel that the justice system protects the perpetrator a lot more than it does the victim:

There are many things an accused can use to mitigate their position, there are many reasons to shorted a sentence, they can get out on good behavior, they can generally serve ...

Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!

Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...

August ends today, and we pick things right back up with another character deep dive, this time of the fascinating Nicodemus Blacroft from the comic Devil’s Blood by the amazing Dragonsong12!


Devil’s Blood is the story of a city in crisis and the people that are trying to ...

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We chatted about Greek Myths last week and found the subject so interesting that we thought we'd do a part two! So even MORE Greek myth stuff for Quackcast 700.

There are just so many great ...

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We're chatting about our fave Greek myths! Greek myths are foundational to a lot ...