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Episode 503 - Changing attitudes

Ozoneocean at Nov. 3, 2020, midnight
tags: Adulting Amy, Banes, Changing attitudes, comics community, Drunk duck, Drunk Duck Awards 2020, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 503, Webcomics hosting

An old man tries to explain modern culture to an even older man… Attitudes change! Things don't stay the same, culture moves on and when we try to hang onto old ideas we can look like idiots, and even worse than that we can hold up cultural progress and hurt people.
That's what we're trying to talk about…

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Episode 502 - Definitive character moments!

Ozoneocean at Oct. 27, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Definitive character moments, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, How Blade Got His Name, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 502, Small Gods, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

What is the most definitive version of your character? Where does it pop up in your comic? What part of your work most defines your main character and why? What about TV, movie, comic, and story characters?

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Episode 501 - Horrorcast

Ozoneocean at Oct. 20, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, horrorcast, Matriarch, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 501, Space Pirates of the Black Quarter, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

We are the Pretty Things That Live in the House!
We all dressed up for a Halloween themed cast today! You can see our weird looks in our Patreon video ($5 and up subscribers). Pitface was a yellowfaced corn vampire with amazing teeth (very midwest), Banes was an old, oooooold terrifying baldy vampire, Tantz was a beautiful, big eyed doctor vampire, and I was an 18th century Vamp (Lestat/Varny), with a face messy with the blood of my victims! And I had in rubber fangs held in by chewing gum, just like a REAL vampire, because the denture glue didn't hold in my good fangs… it just filled my mouth with disgusting glue that stuck all over my teeth XD

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Episode 500 - Celebration!

Ozoneocean at Oct. 13, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Celebration!, Dagger of the Mind, Drunk duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 500, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Finally we got to the five hundredth Quackcast! Wow! That's so many. We've been doing these for 10 years now. That's a long running podcast! To celebrate we invited our DD members aboard. We had a great fun time, lots of laughs and a really good chat. We even had time to introduce special cotributions from the people who couldn't be live with us. I'm making our exclusive patreon video of this week's cast free for all to view! Just click on the youtube link bellow.

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Episode 499 - Life's worth?!

Ozoneocean at Oct. 6, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, Era of Iridore, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Life's worth?, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 499, Raising Cain, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

What is the worth of human life in your stories?
This isn't something people often consider, we just tend to have a fairly accurate guess based on our experience of the real world, but sometimes stories get it really wrong and that can harm suspension of disbelief.

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Episode 498 - Your culture is MINE now!

Ozoneocean at Sept. 29, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 498, Steggo Girl, Tantz Aerine, The Impossible Family, Webcomics hosting, Your culture is MINE now!

This week we're talking about cultural appropriation, cultural adaption and adoption, also stereotypes and all sorts of related stuff. It was inspired by a newspost from Tantz discussing the recent live action Mulan movie by Disney. Cultural appropriation is when you take an aspect that is sacred or important to one culture and own it yourself: decontextualising it, stripping it off it's meaning, making a cartoon version of it, commodifying it, commercialising or cheapening it in some other way.

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Episode 497 - It's just kid's stuff

Ozoneocean at Sept. 22, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Filaments a Kerbop Story, Gunwallace, It's just kid's stuff, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 497, Small Gods, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Today we're talking about the idea that entertainment aimed at kids can only be enjoyed by kids and the reason that adults often don't like kids things is because adults just don't “get” them. I contend that everyone, of all ages should be able to enjoy General or kid rated media and the true reason we don't is not because it “isn't meant for us”, it's because it's simply badly written - specifically, it's not the content that's annoying, it's the structure.

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Episode 496 - titular titularity!

Ozoneocean at Sept. 15, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, lich Quing’s Tale, music, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 496, Steggo Girl, Tantz Aerine, titular titularity!, Webcomics hosting

Titles are surprisingly important for your comic! We don't often realise that when we first start them, but a title is one of the very first ways people come across your work. You have to sell it to them and give them an idea of what to expect in only a very few words. You can take a lot of different approaches to that, like teasing and intriguing them with a title that suggests something interesting or mysterious, character names are great for that. You can be completely literal and obvious. You can use a pun… you can take an existing popular title and alter it in a slight way… There are so many things you can do!

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Episode 495 - A fan of fanfiction?

Ozoneocean at Sept. 8, 2020, midnight
tags: A fan of fanfiction, Banes, Belle Starr, comics community, Drunk duck, Era of Iridore, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 495, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Fanfiction is a massive subject, there are so many aspects to it, from the bad stuff with the Mary Sues, rampant shipping, author inserts and wish fulfilment etc to homages and great works that extend the story and characters beyond what they were in the original and add interesting and fun aspects to fan favourites. There are many good reasons to do fanfiction: It's fun, you're inspired and want to use that inspiration, all the characteristics of the story are readymade so you don't have to do world building or character development, the work has a built in audience so you're going to have readers no matter what and hopefully some feedback, it can help make you more popular as a creator because of the fans of the original work, and you get to experiment because you can't sell the work or do anything serious with it so you may as well have fun and enjoy it!

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Episode 494 - No antagonist is the best antagonist?

Ozoneocean at Sept. 1, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, music, No antagonist is the best antagonist?, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 494, Tantz Aerine, The History of One Humankind, The Second Crimean war, Webcomics hosting

Does a story always need an antagonist embodied in the form of an active character? I don't think they do! We chat about examples of stories without antagonistic characters that work just as well, if not better than the reverse! This is based on Bane's newspost from last Thursday (link in the notes). Tantz and I have a long argument about what the main antagonist in Wall-E was! I think that a lot of the better Pixar movies don't have their main antagonising force embodied in characters- Inside Out, Moana, Coco, Wall-E etc, and we they do they're not quite as strong or as touching. Even in Up the villain in that only plays the main antagonist for a short time. What d you think?

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Episode 493 - Use existing IP to explore new things?

Ozoneocean at Aug. 25, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gumshoe, Gunwallace, MouseTrap, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 493, Tantz Aerine, Use existing IP to explore new things, Webcomics hosting

First up… HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TANTZ!
This Quackcast is about the topic of whether it's right to change an established character just to fit with the ideas and styles of a new creator or change them in accordance with an idea or political position you want to explore, OR should you instead create a whole new character or story to do that with? Bane's newspost gave the example of the ersatz justice league created for The Boys, where Homelander =/= Superman. The series was made to look at the dark side of superheros, but it doesn't ruin established and much loved heroes to do that…

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Episode 492 - Impermanence of the new digital age

Ozoneocean at Aug. 18, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Filaments a KerBop Story, Gunwallace, Impermanence of the new digital age, Ingenimia Aus, kawaiidaigakusei, music, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 492, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics

This Quackcast is about the impermanence of online services and the lie that services are provided for fee and providers have no responsibility to the creators and viewers that use them. Hushicho posted in our forum about Tapas newly restricting nudity in comics which suddenly disenfranchises hundreds of creators who've built up followings on that site with comics that were well within the the Tapas content rules. With that one change these comics have been wiped out, destroying all the hard work by creators to build up their audiences over a long period of time. That can happen with ANY digital service, we are at the mercy of the corporations that provide them.

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Episode 491 - Getting retro right!

Ozoneocean at Aug. 11, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Getting retro right!, Gumshoe, Gunwallace, Hel's Ferrywomen, Ozoneocean, Ptface, QUACKCAST 491, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

DD member Furwerk Studios posted in our forum about how annoying it was that movies try and do an 80s retro thing often get things totally wrong and end up looking dumb because of it: Not just superficial looks-wise but stylistically too in terms of the kinds of shots they do, lighting and story structure. I thought that'd make an interesting topic for a cast!
Why do people often mess up retro stuff? We're not talking about historical accuracy here, that's slightly different, what we're talking about is setting something in an era and getting the “feel” of that era right. It pays off hugely when it works, but when it doesn't it comes off as superficial, disappointing and ignorant.

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Episode 490 - Genres of webcomics!

Ozoneocean at Aug. 4, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, Bottomless Waitress, Drunk duck, featured comic and music, Genres of webcomics!, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 490, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics

Aren't genres great? They're so useful for categorising what we like and selling our work. Today we're chatting about all the genres that are popular in webcomics now, that we know of. Back in the day webcomics were mainly defined by TWO genres: slice of life, and gaming. And out of those two gaming was king! Actually a lot of comics combined the two. The biggest were things like 8 Bit Fantasy, PVP, Penny Arcade, and Ctrl Alt Delete.

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Episode 489 - Continuity

Ozoneocean at July 28, 2020, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, DD Continuity, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Goddard and Grey, Gunwallace, How to Half Ass Porn Webcomics, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 489, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

It's just Banes, Tantz and me today, chatting about the important topic of continuity! How do you maintain it, what continuity errors have you made, what continuity errors have you noticed in media? What's the difference between character continuity, story continuity and chronological continuity? - Something you notice when you watch or read a series in chronological order that was were NOT produced or meant to be viewed that way.

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