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Episode 458 - fave Christmas stuff?

Ozoneocean at Dec. 24, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, fave Christmas stuff?, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Legend of Wind Fist, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 458, Tantz Aerine, The St Nickolas Conspiracy, Webcomics hosting

Hey! Merry Xmas! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Kwanza! Merry Festivus! Happy Yule! Happy Saturnalia! Winter Solstice and all the rest ^_^
In this Quackcast Banes, Tantz, and I chat about our fave Christmas stuff, from films to music, to what we like to do on the day and the popular Christmas traditions of our parts of the world- Australia for me Greece for Tantz, and Canada for Banes.
What is your fave xmas movie, music, or activity? What's you fave things to do at this time of year? Do you have any rituals or practices that are particular to your part of the world? Let us know! :D

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Episode 457 - Religion in fiction 2

Ozoneocean at Dec. 17, 2019, midnight
tags: Drunk Duck, featured theme tune, Gunwallace, Molly Lusc, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 457, Religion in fiction 2, Tantz Aerine featured comic, Vagabonds Waifs and strays, Webcomics community

2 weeks ago we discussed the topic of religion in fiction: basicaly how we use real world religions to inform the perspectives of our characters and make the worlds more real, how we use religion in fiction, and how we make up religions for our worlds.
We had so many great responses to this in the forum and about the Quackcast that we thought it'd be great to feature and chat about them!
DD is a community after all and we love our community members to be a part of the Quackcast!

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Episode 456 - Smackdown on Quackjeeves

Ozoneocean at Dec. 10, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, Banes’ them, Barkham Horror, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 456, Smackdown on Quackjeeves, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Smack Jeeves has been sold out from under its community to a Korean mobile content provider company NHN. The same company approached us last year but the deal didn't go through because we were too strict on retaining control of the site and protecting our community, SJ apparently didn't have those same concerns for the people that made the site so special and that is a huge shame. What's happened now is that NHN is streamlining the site, minimising the creative members who host their comics there and turning it into a content delivery site for its hand-picked pro work, turning it into another souless clone corporate of Webtoons or Tapas.

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Episode 455 - Religion in fiction

Ozoneocean at Dec. 3, 2019, midnight
tags: Animal Town Confidential, Banes, Drunk Duck, featured theme tune, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 455, Religion in fiction, Tantz Aerine featured comic, The St Nickolas Conspiracy, Webcomics community

We're talking about how religion is portrayed in fiction and a bit about WHY. This was a surprisingly fascinating topic. I came up with the idea while watching the old 2000s SciFi series Andromeda: one of the alien characters there is sort of a space Buddhist, and I felt like that was a pretty common thing in American TV Scifi, so I wondered about what other kinds of religious tropes exist in contemporary fiction, fantasy and other SciFi worlds.

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Episode 454 - Are Marvel movies "Despicable"?

Ozoneocean at Nov. 26, 2019, midnight
tags: Are Marvel movies despicable?, Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Feint, Francis Ford Coppola, Gunwallace, Inner enemy, kawaiidaigakusei, Martin Scorsese, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 454, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

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 are “despicable”. We try and look at the proper context of these remarks outside of the twitter garbage and social media outrage to see if either had any point or whether they're way off the mark and deserving of criticism.

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Episode 453 - Lost in Translation

Ozoneocean at Nov. 19, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, featured theme tune, Gunwallace, Inner Enemy, Lost in Translation, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 453, Tantz Aerine featured comic, The Caraway Crew, Webcomics community

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, especially for those of us outside of there because our cultures are slightly different. We THINK we totally understand each other but there ARE differences. So to make ourselves properly understood with the original intent of the story we often have to translate things slightly (much more in Tantz's case!). This goes doubly when a story is set in a different era. How much do you localise your story for the audience, how much SHOULD you?

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Episode 452 - Storytelling styles change!

Ozoneocean at Nov. 12, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Full House by Projectnutz, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 452, Storytelling styles change, Tantz Aerine, The Jacket Comic, Webcomics hosting

Storytelling styles change over time for various reasons: fashion, audience expectations, competition for audience attention due to increased choice and availability of media, technological limitations and abilities, and culture. We chat about the reasons for the changes and how styles have changed.

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Episode 451 - Fans who criticise are are good fans

Ozoneocean at Nov. 5, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, Fans who criticise, featured theme tune, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 451, Ripping off King Arthur, Tantz Aerine featured comic, The jacket Comic, Webcomics community

“Toxic fans” is a bit of a catch cry now and that has seemed to turn into the idea that any fan who is critical of something or doesn't like it isn't a “true fan”, fans must should love everything. I find this a dangerously silly notion and one clearly driven by business interests with only a limited relationship to reality. It's quite similar to the idea that you're “either for us or against us”, the twisted idea of “patriotism” that says you must agree with and love everything your country and your leader does no matter what or you're a traitor.

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Episode 450 - happy Halloween horror franchises

Ozoneocean at Oct. 29, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, happy Halloween horror franchises, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 450, Risk it for a Biscuit, Tantz Aerine, The True Face, Webcomics hosting

Tantz is dressed fabulously as a queen and I'm a skull faced monstrosity… I'm also wearing a costume, hahaha! Which you can see in our Patreon video ;)
Queen Tantz Bathory and prince of horror Banes join me to talk about Horror movie franchises, what makes them work and what doesn't- as franchises rather than just a stand alone movie. The problems facing a movie series about horror are different from other genres and focus more on formula than just characters the way they do in most other types of film so it's an interesting discussion.

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Episode 449 - Star Wars 2 the franchise strikes back

Ozoneocean at Oct. 22, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, featured theme tune, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 449, Spacefighters, Star Wars 2 the franchise strikes back, Tantz Aerine featured comic, Webcomics community, Wild Wolves

As promised we dive right into the second half of the Star Wars chat! We cover all the Star Wars stuff besides the original trilogy and the new trilogy. There's a lot to cover and we only touch on most on it: Solo, the Star Wars Christmas special, Droids, the Ewok films, Clone Wars, the games, the books, comics, Solo, Rogue One…

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Episode 448 - King of franchises: Star Wars!

Ozoneocean at Oct. 15, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, comics communit, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Interstellar Dust, kawaiidaigakusei, King of franchises: Star Wars, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 448, Tantz Aerine, The Shootin', Webcomics hosting, webcomics reviews and interviews

Continuing on our focus on movie franchises for the month of October, THIS time we focus on the king of them all: STAR WARS!

This was a genre defining series, not only for movies but for space opera, “SciFi”, and science fantasy on all media!
The original trilogy was quite a milestone. Predictably further instalments weren't quite as well received but it still remains popular even so! Currently it's having a resurgence in popularity once more.

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Episode 447 - Indiana Jones and the temple of Duck!!

Ozoneocean at Oct. 8, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk Duck, featured theme tune, Gunwallace, Indiana Jones and the temple of Duck!, Out of the Blue, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 447, Tantz Aerine featured comic, Webcomics community

For the month of October we've decided to look at a different movie franchise each week, starting with Indiana Jones! Banes and Tantz have way more knowledge about the films than I, having watched them much more, but we all have a fondness for the character.

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Episode 446 - Interview with Jamais Jochim of Webcomics Reviews and Interviews!

Ozoneocean at Oct. 1, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes, Breached, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Interview with Jamais Jochim, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, p, Quackcast 446, Speaking in tongues, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting, webcomics reviews and interviews

Today we're getting all META and interviewing the creator of another webcomics podcast! Jamais Jochim is the host of Webcomics Reviews and Interviews! It's a podcast that covers much the same ground as we do, but with more research and less winging it, also more interviews with experts and webcomicers, so he's really worth checking out.
Our $5 and up patrons can see video of us chatting with him in the flesh!

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Episode 445 - Copyright and You

Ozoneocean at Sept. 24, 2019, midnight
tags: Banes Gunwallace, Copyright and You, Dragons in Civilized Land, Drunk Duck, featured comic, featured theme tune, Ozoneocean, podcast, QUACKCAST 445, stunklock, Webcomics community

Copyright is a complicated thing and something that all creators should have a little bit of a working understanding off! Checkout my newspost lined bellow for more info! you need to know this stuff.
I must apologise… I hadn't had much sleep and it was very late so I occasionally drift off into nonsense during the Quackcast.

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