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Episode 637 - Rumours

Ozoneocean at May 30, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Gunwallace, music, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 637, Rumours, Tantz Aerine, The True Face, Webcomics hosting, Zed vs The World

Rumours can be damaging stories deliberately spread to harm people, they can grow organically of their own accord. Salacious rumours replace truth and stick around in history, like the silly stories of Catherine the Great and horses, Nero fiddling while Rome burned, Marie Antoinette saying “let them eat cake”, or the famously wealthy Roman general Crassus dying by having molten gold poured on his head. All rumours and silly stories but they become stronger than real history.
Then there's the notorious story of poor Fatty Arbuckle and how he supposedly killed a woman during a sexual act due to his ‘enormous bulk“. A complete and utter fabrication but it destroyed his career and is still believed today.

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Episode 636 - The Cusscast

Ozoneocean at May 23, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Captain Gold and the Robotrons, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Mercury Virus, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 636, swearing, Tantz Aerine, The Cusscast, Webcomics hosting

We're talking about swearing! Swearing in comics, types of swearing, the use of swearing, causing offense, taking offense, swearing used as a term of endearment, and some history behind various types of swearing. We barely even scratch the surface! We don't swear in the Quackcast if we can help it so we're talking around and about the language without using it, though we DO swear in our Patreon vid, which is free to all patrons, even the $1 level.

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Episode 635 - Warcast

Ozoneocean at May 16, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Elmwych, Featured comic, Gunwallace, Mercury Virus, music, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 635, Tantz Aerine, Warcast, Webcomics hosting

We're talking about WAR here! Trying to leave out politics, though that's really hard with war because it's basically ALL politics but on fire. So we're talking mainly about depictions of it or at least aspects of it, in art and the media. Both Tantz Aerine and myself work on war comics, Without Moonlight and Pinky TA respectively (plus Tantz also does Brave Resistance with Pitface), so we have some knowledge of the subject from a creator perspective.

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Episode 634 - Boomer-myth

Ozoneocean at May 9, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Boomer-myth, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Mirage, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 634, Tantz Aerine, The Ballad of Bill, Webcomics hosting

Generational tensions are a cultural constant. It's popular to pick on the young and say they're lazy, irresponsible, stupid, changing things in silly ways etc, but it's also just as popular too defend them and debunk myths associated with younger people, we don't have that with older people and I find that a bit sad and disturbing. This cast tackles the myths associated with “boomers”.

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Episode 633 - Asterix is GOOD history

Ozoneocean at May 2, 2023, midnight
tags: Asterix is GOOD history, Danse Macabre Danse Amour, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Generational Drama, Gunwallace, music, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 633, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Asterix and Cleopatra VS Netflix… We were initially inspired by the furious reaction over Netflix's new series on Queen Cleopatra, a purported “documentary” and it's seeming focus on fantasy rather than history, but then we started thinking about the brilliant comic Asterix and how it handled history… It didn't pretend to be accurate, it's a comedy afterall, and yet it managed to retain a great level of veracity without taking too many liberties.

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Episode 632 - Star Wars

Ozoneocean at April 25, 2023, midnight
tags: Arkin Blade, Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 632, Star Wars, Tantz Aerine, The Ballad of Bill, Webcomics hosting

We finally gave in to temptation and just started chatting about Star Wars. For our Patreon video we were talking about the idea of pivotal pop-cultural landmarks that changed the cultural landscape in various ways. Star Wars definitely qualifies… but instead of finding other examples we just decided to indulge in a Star Wars only cast. We didn't do more than scratch the surface unfortunately though. It's a cool cultural phenomena and it's something we always refer back to when we talk about story structure. SO please bear with us as we indulge!

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Episode 631 - Entitlements

Ozoneocean at April 18, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Entitlements, Featured comic, Gamma Blue Smoldering of Creel, Guardians of Man, Gunwallace, music, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 631, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

What rights are people actually entitled to? That question is a lot bigger than you think!
The Quackcast today is sequel to last week's about entitled people, this one is about actual entitlements- what people SHOULD be entitled to. i.e. rights and such. It's a topic that Banes and Tantz really wanted to do and my purpose was to link it to writing and comics (not just theory and politics), which I think I did ok. This topic turned out to be very interesting.

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Episode 630 - Entitled

Ozoneocean at April 11, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Customer Service, Drunk duck, Entitled, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Night Lights and Dark Places, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 630, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

The Quackcast this week is about entitled bossy Karens. In fact it was originally going to BE “the Karencast” but the whole “Karen” thing is a bit sexist and pejorative. So why a Quackcast on overly entitled people then? Well aside from we stealing it from Tantz's newspost on Friday, those kinds of people make great minor villain characters. They can be comic relief baddies but they can also be deceptively dangerous when they really DO have connections to back up their arrogance!

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Episode 629 - Reevaluation cast

Ozoneocean at April 4, 2023, midnight
tags: banes, blankgalaxy, drunkduck, featuredcomic, guardiansofman, gunwallace, music, ozoneocean, quackcast629, reevaluationcast, tantzaerine, webcomicshosting

Have you ever watched a series devotedly then lost touch with it for some reason for a while and then gone back to it a couple of years later and tried to get into again but this time you look at it with a very different perspective? Or maybe you loved a movie when you were young and decided to watch it again as an adult to see if it holds up?

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Episode 628 - Cover me!

Ozoneocean at March 28, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Cover Me, Danse Macabre Danse Amour, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Kingdom of Cats, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 628, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

We're talking about the importance of a good cover in this cast. Another technical comicscast! I love making coves, they're one of my fave things because I get to stretch my artistic muscles and get a little more flashy and creative with my art and graphic design. They can also be pretty dread things to work on when you've used up all your creative powers on your actual comic and have nothing left over…

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Episode 627 - Character consistency and speech bubbles!

Ozoneocean at March 20, 2023, 9:48 a.m.
tags: Banes, Character constancy and speech bubbles!, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Game Punks, Gunwallace, music, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 627, Tantz Aerine, Thrud Goddess of Thunder, Webcomics hosting

Today its another technical comics making focused cast, suggested by Tantz Aerine! We cover our notions about how to maintain character consistency and consistency in general, plus a bit on speech bubbles and the text in them. I was SOOPER tired towards the end though so I wasn't all there mentally but the guys carried it through admirably.

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Episode 626 - I didn't do nuthin'

Ozoneocean at March 13, 2023, 7:04 a.m.
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, I didn't do nuthin', kawaiidaigakusei, Oswald the Overman, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 626, Tantz Aerine, TinasStory, Webcomics hosting

Today we talk about an unusual type of villain, a secret type of bad guy and a particularly nasty one: the person who maliciously does nothing. This is a person who COULD intervene to resolve a dire situation or save someone, they could do it easily; they know how, they have the means, they're not scared or unsure, and it doesn't mean much risk to themselves, they just choose to sit back and watch the person die or the situation collapse… either because they know the result will benefit themselves or they're just curious to watch the person die or the everything turn to crap for the victim or whatever. Either way they COULD easily intervene but they choose not to.

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Episode 625 - Designing Women

Ozoneocean at March 7, 2023, midnight
tags: Banes, Designing Women, Drunk duck, Featured comic and music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 625, Sunday Punch, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Character design is a fun process but not without its challenges. Do you design the character or their story first? I've followed both of those approaches, they have pluses and minuses. On one hand when you create the character first that can make it a real passion project, you make a cool character and then create a story for them to live in and be themselves. But that can also lead to Mary Sues, wish fulfillment and self inserts, which makes for a weak story. Creating characters to fit a story can sometimes lead to using a lot of stereotypes and ending up with fairly generic and bland characters, which can make for a dull story. So it's best to use a bit of balance and judgment.

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Episode 624 - Comic panel creation

Ozoneocean at Feb. 28, 2023, midnight
tags: American Pantheon, Banes, Comic panel creation, Drunk duck, Featured, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, Quackcast 624, Sell Outs, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

HPKomic is a great guy, he's been on DD since almost the beginning. He alternates the Friday newsposts with me, he focusses on the intricacies of comic panels. This time he asked people to talk about their own processes though and I thought this would be a good topic for a Quackcast!
So on this comic podcast we're finally talking directly about making comic pages, who would've thought?

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