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QUACKCAST 582 - Time travel

Ozoneocean at May 10, 2022, midnight

tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 582, Rat Test Blues, Sad W, Tantz Aerine, Time travel, Webcomics hosting

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Let's go forward in time to the past so we can get back to the future and kill our grandfather and be our own ancestor while we step on a bug and …

UP THE PYRAMID: A Nowhere Near Guide to Self-Actualization Climbs to One Hundred Pages

kawaiidaigakusei at May 9, 2022, midnight

Photo: “CIRCUS OF THE TIRED BEASTS” by BUDLO. Woodblock print.

Today we have a very special announcement from BUDLO, the creator of the recently featured comic, “Up the Pyramid”:

Topic: UP THE PYRAMID hits 100 pp.!

Only a handful more pages then I think I'll close it down for a …

Language

Andreas_Helixfinger at May 8, 2022, midnight

tags: andreas helixfinger, language

As a compulsive - and rather obsessive – writer I often find myself tinkering around with language. And I’ve always found the creativity and imagination that can go into the language within a fictional world to be similar to that of an illustrator. When done well it can bring color …

The Art That Made Us

Tantz_Aerine at May 7, 2022, midnight

tags: art, artists, inspiration, Tantz_Aerine

A million things have already been said and talked about regarding an artist's inspiration. A million more will be. From debates on what constitutes inspiration vs. poaching or plagiarism to what makes an artist inspired by other artists' work.

But what I want to talk about is not exactly that. …

Panel by Panel: 'Goldstar' and the Power of the Establishing Shot

hpkomic at May 6, 2022, midnight

tags: analysis, craft, Goldstar of Wishes and Miracles, news, panel by panel, TheViktor

Hello and welcome to Panel by Panel, an analysis of panels from comics right here on The Duck and exploring what they do, how they work, and what we can learn from them.

Let's start with our panel in question this week. This one comes from the webcomic of Goldstar …

A Bit of a Stretch

Banes at May 5, 2022, midnight

tags: coincidence, stretch, thursdayswithbanes, writing

On a recent episode of Better Call Saul there was a plot element that caused some discussion/criticism.

Mild spoilers for Better Call Saul ahead.

There's a character on this show, Lalo, who was set up to be almost - almost - more than human. This is not a superhero show …

FEATURED COMIC --> Sad W

kawaiidaigakusei at May 4, 2022, midnight

tags: COMIC, E, FEATURED, Sad, Sstavix, W

Water cooler gossip and rough days at work result in many indoor evenings at home filled with video games. Solemn Sad Blue “W”, is best friends with Mad Red “M”, an online streamer. Watch Sad W battle against servers of name-calling gamers and less than favorite game-picks in exchange for …

QUACKCAST 581 - David's always right

Ozoneocean at May 3, 2022, midnight

tags: Banes, David's always right, Drunk duck, Featured comic, featured music, Ghost Network, Gunwallace, Hpkomic, Introducing HPK, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 581, Succubus, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

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David's always right - Introducing Hpkomic! Hpkomic has been with DD since the earliest days, he's a comic artist, writer, English teacher, and podcaster. He even participated in the second comicbook challenge …

Steph’s Story “Wavelengths” Shows the Untold Beauty of the Nine to Five

kawaiidaigakusei at May 2, 2022, midnight

Photo: Life is Strange 3, bonus episode “Wavelengths”. Square Enix, Deck Nine.

The studios at Square Enix and Deck Nine have delivered a third installment to their Life is Strange series, titled True Colors due to the protagonist’s ability to see auras, that is both sobering and surprisingly critical to …

Inspiration/Plagiarism

Andreas_Helixfinger at May 1, 2022, midnight

tags: andreas helixfinger, inspiration, plagiarism

I’m taking a pause from the Fantastic Bestiary this week as I haven’t been my best healthwise lately. Also lately I’ve been distracted by something that has left me with this question poppin’ into my mind, And so this sunday I'm posting this question that perhaps anyone of you can …

The Unicorn

Tantz_Aerine at April 30, 2022, midnight

tags: character design, heroic designs, Tantz_Aerine, unicorns, writing

No, this article isn't about the mythological beings. I wouldn't want to steal any single one from Andreas Helixfinger's awesome Sunday article series.

What I want to talk about is the metaphorical unicorn: a character that is too good to be true, too unlikely to be found in real life …

Friday Fashion Spotlight 24: Eve and Lilith

Ozoneocean at April 29, 2022, midnight

tags: Eve and Lilith, Friday Fashion Spotlight

Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 24.

Lilith and Eve are two interesting people with a special relationship budding between the two of them. Both are trans and they have very individual styles. Lilith is proud, confident, aggressive and dressy with a masculine spice. Eve is a lot less …

The Unholy Alliance

Banes at April 28, 2022, midnight

tags: thursdayswithbanes, villains, writing

Holy Unholy Alliance, Batman!

Last week we talked about what I called the "villain combo platter" with different types of villains that could make for multifaceted kinds of conflicts for the hero to face.

At the time, PaulEberhart mentioned the alliance between villains that happened at one point during Deep …

FEATURED COMIC --> Succubus

Ozoneocean at April 27, 2022, midnight

tags: FEATURED COMIC, Succubus

A succubus is a very particular kind of demon, sexy and extremely dangerous… And Mary is an exceptionally dangerous demon. Mary wasn't always a succubus, she had a very traumatic transition into becoming one. She was human and alive once, a horrible event changed all that. Now she's out for …

QUACKCAST 580 - Fantasy worlds crossing over

Ozoneocean at April 26, 2022, midnight

tags: Banes, COLD-BLOODED, Drunk duck, Fantasy worlds crossing overs, Featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 580, Tantz Aerine, Up the Pyramid, Webcomics hosting

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The full team is assembled yet again! Tantz came up with the idea of having a look at hidden fantasy worlds in fiction that have strong ties with the "real world" and …