Author: Fracadactyl

Fracadactyl is my username, giving ideas you don't know you could love is my game. Jake Palermo is my legal name, I am writer who found my niche in the concept of things. How ideas change and build on themselves. Comics just happen to be the least expensive and most memorable ways these can be seen.

Maria Hill: Why Can’t Anybody Do This Character Right?

Welcome back to Dude, What the Heck? a segment where a highly divided subject in comics is analyzed on why that is the case. Today, […]

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Batman: The Gift (The Travelers): Tom King’s First Mess

Welcome back to Dude, What the Heck?!, a segment where I analyze comics that are praised in places but ridiculed in others. Today we will […]

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Marvel Civil War: Most Liberal Things Ive Ever Seen

So here I am watching a video, going through reviews, and they all say the Marvel Civil War is one of the worst things to […]

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Superman Expies: The Man of Steel Through Different Eyes

Who would’ve thought my first Comic Theory would be a comparison between Superman and his intercompany clones?

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Sidekicks: Why Being a Superhero’s Intern is the Worst

Welcome to the Comic Comparisons segment where comic books have parallels. For the first jab, let’s take a look at a classic trope that Batman […]

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Analog & The Private Eye: The End of the Cloud

In the age of information where data is nonchalantly compromised, would it really be better if the cloud just made everything public? These comics don’t think so.

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Superhero Archetypes: A Simplified If Instructive List

In the superhero genre, there are certain character archetypes that pop up more than others. TV Tropes tends to call these superhero expies. These are […]

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Manhwa vs Webtoons: On The Optimal Breakthrough

When printed paper just made Korea’s comics look like copycats, some bright ideas lead to the innovations of Webtoons.

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Manga: The Style that Touches like the Sun

Manga, the styles that make movie storyboards blush. So stylish and influential, it had to get substance to back it up.

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Indian Comics (Chitrakatha): Telling New Legends

In India, comics called Chitrakatha were a way of depicting the exploits of gods, today it does so in a new form with superheroes and humor.

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