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People in stories, especially bad guys in stories usually want to take over the world, but why? What's really to gain? Even in reality it's a complex question. That's what we're ...

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I love those characters who bitch and moan and want to do things differently, although they don't usually take up the leadership role themselves, they just THINK they should be leader instead, but they ...

Photo: “A Page of the Tuesday Funnies Used to Wrap a Mason Jar at the Thrift Store”. The San Diego Union-Tribune. (February 2025)

Gleaning for vintage supplies at the local thrift store, I made out with an assortment of cream coloured typewriter papers weathered by age from card stock cotton ...

Katya is training to be a Grim Reaper, taken under the wing of the skeletal instructor, Comrade Reaper. Tucked away in the hidden rooms of the Wallachian Library lies an unbreakable glass box containing the once living body of Bolshevik leader, Vladimir Lenin. “This was Stalin’s idea, I’m ...

Alfred Silver Fuzzbutt Hordak Meowgi, a crown-wearing feline known as Alfie, lives in The Apartment with two human roommates, Kat and Luke. Kat is a collector of rare odds and ends such as a Count Rugen poster from The Princess Bride to Sean Connery’s original hairpiece from James Bond ...

This is an amazing musical themed comic about the destined meeting of Blotto with Cork and the musical magical they made together… Blotto is stuck playing guitar for a boring Christian band in church, lorded over by a bossy harridan of a bandleader. And when he studies at music school ...

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——–Captain Hello Squirrel—————-
I don't know why so many stories start with the protagonist waking up and then proceed on to several pages of their morning routine. This one is nicely broken by the appearance of a freaking squirrel wearing a pair of pants as a hat and peeing ...

Today’s deep dive is with Polly, from Bottomless Waitress! Bottomless Waitress is the joint creation of Banes and Ozoneocean, with Banes writing the script and Ozoneocean doing the artwork.

It's a teasing, raunchy and somewhat absurd slice-of-life comedy. It’s a masterful balancing act, dancing carefree on the ...

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We're chatting about a couple of things today: the DD 2023 Awards which are in their completion faze now, and “strong” characters of any gender.
The DD awards are finding up now and presentations will be ...

The debate on what constitutes a “strong female character”, whether having “strong female leads” or “feminism” is tanking “woke” films these past few years, is ongoing. There's accusations of toxicity on both sides. Misogyny, misandry, wokeness and brokeness, all of these terms and hot takes are fired and take ...