In a discussion on Story-Games.com, I made a promise more to myself than to anyone else to work more on combining my half-baked Coming-Of-Age RPG and my vague thoughts on an RPG inspired by that Michael Chabon novel. In the six days since then I haven't made much progress, though much of that time was spent reading comics, so it's not exactly far ( Read more... )

Title cards for dialogue in silent movies and word balloons in comics are basically the same thing. Both are artificial creations - Will Eisner called them "desperation devices" - developed to communicate what the medium cannot naturally deliver. One segregates dialogue out into a separate space on the paper, the other in a separate space in the ( Read more... )

"Researchers from mining group Rio Tinto discovered the unusual mineral and enlisted the help of Dr Stanley when they could not match it with anything known previously to science ( Read more... )