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 ...

Super heroes are pretty amazing people with awesome powers and abilities beyond normal humans… but they are still normal humans actually, at least the ones in Olympian Heights. They have normal hopes and dreams, passions, crushes, moments of weakness and hesitation… and yet they try to make the right calls ...

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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 ...

Batman and Robin are fighting crime in the real world!



https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/11/police-deliver-vengeance-on-gamblers-while-disguised-as-batman-and-robin

Two police offers in London used Batman and Robin costumes to allow them to get close to illegal gambling operators plying their nefarious trade on Westminster Bridge.






Batman has a long ...

Photo: “ - Spring - Ch.7: Page 49”. Imago Nebraska created by InkyMoondrop. (April 2025)

InkyMoondrop writes:

“Hi again!


Imago, Nebraska's Chapter 7 ends on the 15th of April, Tuesday.

We're going to pick up the pace a little it and switch to a 3 pages / day publication for a ...

As creators of stories, be they novels or graphic novels or comics, we all have heard the adage “write what you know”. It's been drummed into our minds to the point that its cold fingers have our impostor syndrome in a deathgrip every time we venture our to write ...

Water Lilly, California, is home to some very strange people, namely a whole bunch of teens with supernatural abilities and some that might technically not be considered as actually being alive. They get into all the normal scrapes and japes teens normally do, plus some extra because of their weird ...

If you are setting a story in the past it can often be hard to get everything from the little things to the big picture right, especially if it's a period you haven't lived through yourself. Even then, your memory can play tricks on you.

It doesn't ...

Ax, single father of two young children, spends his days navigating a space ship to sort through space debris. Janus and Callista, along with their babysitter, Julia, fear Ax’s line of work especially after the loss of their mother. One day, Ax receives a weak S.O.S. signal ...

Time is something that affects us all and as we age we become more aware of it because it seems to speed up, things become less permanent, and we become aware of our own mortality and mortality in general. Humans are a very long lived species as things go but ...