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With the Thanksgiving holiday coming to a close and Christmas not being far away, now is a good time to take a step back and consider the past year. For my writing partner and I, we had high hopes for the year coupled with a mountain of plans. However, those …
Do the things you draw come true?
At the end of Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character writes a play that recreates his breakup with Annie. But in the fictional version, they stay together and the romance continues. Narrating the movie, Woody apologizes to the movie's audience and says "What can …
Is Santa Claus just a story we tell young kids, is it a vast conspiracy involving all adults working together with the government for some reason, or is he a real person? In the The St Nickolas Conspiracy Heather sets out to discover the truth after her science-minded friend Micha …
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This week we look at the famous quote by respected film director Martin Scorsese that "Marvel movies aren't Cinema" and also the quote by fellow director Francis Ford Coppola that Marvel films …
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Anyone up for Secret Santa? For anyone new to the neighborhood, this is an annual DD tradition, although no one is actually in charge, so some random person takes the reign before it gets too late to pull off. Mid-November is starting to push it, so I randomly …
It so happens that as I write these lines, I have a terrible headache. So I can't gather my thoughts enough for the third installment of my discussion of motivations and ideologies and actions, but I think I'm good to write what I'd promised- my review of Joker! Still, …
A flashback is when the story is interrupted or placed on hold to present an event that occurred prior to the events of the narrative. They are used to explain a character’s history with another character or explore a particular relationship with a place and/or object. Using a flashback is …
Nowhere to Hyde
Last time we talked about characters who are not what they seem. Folks who are introduced one way but are revealed to have a secret nature, or hidden depths, or a hidden agenda.
Another type of "hidden side" I enjoy is a little less universal, but can …
SG, a teenage girl, is on the lookout for her missing boyfriend but finds herself in the clutches of a mountain lion instead. Following her earthly death, she finds herself down the rabbit hole, greeted by an assortment of Eastern and Western deities until she spawns somewhere in Wisconsin greeted …
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Where does your main audience come from? And how do you change your work to accommodate them?
For a lot of us it's north Americans (mainly from the USA), which is interesting, …
On the 22nd of November, Scarred Eden hits its 1 year anniversary and on that exact day, Aggiebun (aka damehelsing on the duck) is going to be running a 12 hour twitch stream to celebrate! Aggiebun will be working on comic pages, chatting with the audience, listening to music and …
Last time we talked about motivation in people, and its relationship to behavior. And I must say you all had great comments I feel deserve to be addressed, so instead of a four-part tour to the world of what makes people tick, I will add a fifth part where I'll …
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There’s been some controversy going around about tracing vs referencing and it gave me pause for thought. And, of course, after some time, I thought it would be an interesting topic to talk about for this week.
In comics, particularly when it comes to …
edward norton in "primal fear"
One of the things I like in fiction is characters who are not what they seem.
Like all things, this sort of thing can be done well, or badly, or somewhere in between. It can be fascinating and surprising, or cliche and predictable. It can …
Erin and Capitan Deakins are working for the state, their current mission is to bring in an escaped historian, Simon Mandel, who's working on Project 5… if they don't find him alive they have to return his dead body. The wilderness outside the citadel walls on Jupiter's moon of Ganymede …
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