There's a difference between a Christmas Special and a Christmas Movie. While the Movie is written around Christmas (or Hannukah or any other Yule-season holiday), the Christmas Special forces the show to be written around Christmas whether it likes it or not.

The hilarity ensues when it falls in ...

Halloween is just around the corner, so what better thing to do than talk about monsters?

Specifically, what has motivated humanity to create them, talk about them, fear them and love them across time and across culture.

Monsters are generally linked with our sense of fear. Fear is an adaptive ...

Now that's a little TOO scary!

Horror is perfect for metaphor and allegory. In fact, a horror story is often allegorical by default, what with its bizarre landscapes and freaky beasties.

Here are some categories of horror and some thoughts on what they symbolize:

Reality Bites


psycho killer! Qu ...

The Anti Continuity

Last time I brought up the ‘standalone episode series’ and the ‘serialized episodes’ approach.

Used Books mentioned Anthologies, which is (kind of) the anti-continuity approach. I love anthologies, and have contributed to a few over the years.

Nothing but respect to The Twilight Zone, one of the ...

It's time for another interview, with Marcorossi, one of DD's most active and proliferate webcomic artists, who also has FINISHED WEBCOMICS.



But enough intro on my part! Let's let Marco talk, here we go!



1. Let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself.


Hi! I’m ...

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This week it's a short cast because my computer broke and we wasted time trying to fix it!
We're chatting about teachers in fiction, a topic inspired by Banes' newspost on the subject. There have ...

teacher, teacher, can you teach me –

I was revisiting a classic movie, one of the ones on this list, in the past week or so, and thinking of the archetypal teacher/student dynamic in fiction.

So, in line with my Top Five Tales of Bands from last year, here's ...

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Today we're talking about swords and armour, the reality of those things and their use in fiction. I've always had a bit of an interest in swords since I was a little kid because I ...

Sena dreams of the legends of old, the fantastic tales of the past with the four mighty kingdoms and heroes with the power of bending fire, earth, water, and air. And of course the stories of the fabled avatars. His current world is a very different place from the one ...

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This Quackcast is about using influence wisely! I had a DD comic creator come to me, apparently a bit distressed at some of the things we'd said in our last Quackcast about drawing adult comics- they ...