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Episode 563 - Merry Christmas

Ozoneocean at Dec. 28, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Giovani Vigilanti, Gunwallace, Merry Christmas!, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 563, Tantz Aerine, The Rose Killer, Webcomics hosting

Merry Xmas from everyone here at DD, but most especially Tantz, Banes and me, Ozoneocean! Pitzy is away for a while on family business, it's the time of year and family comes first. Tantz is at home with her pretty Christmas tree in cold Athens, Banes is snug and warm in his place in snowy Canada, and I'm sweating my bum off in Perth Western Australia as the temperature gets close to 44C (110.66F), but I dressed up like an exotic santa anyway hahaha! Which I tried to draw but lost confidence in my skills because it's SOOOO bloody hot and I can't concentrate so I posted screenshotted pics from our Patreon video instead. I AM MELTING!!!!!!
We have no particular topic this time, just a Christmas chat. It's mostly Tantz and I because Banes had to rush off to work, dedicated fellow he is.
How did you spend Christmas?
Was it hot there too? Cold? Did you actually get a white Christmas?
I would LOVE a winter Christmas.

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Episode 562 - the plots the themes - The space between

Ozoneocean at Dec. 21, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, C h h t, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 562, Tantz Aerine, the plots the themes, Tiger Tea, Webcomics hosting

Merry Christmas and whatever you celebrate :)
Interesting topic from Banes! It's his idea that sometimes the literal elements of a story (the plot etc.) are simply too weak to properly support the theme. He gives the example of The Truman show, where the idea is that a person is living a fake life under constant surveillance as the star of one of the most popular real life TV shows ever and he doesn't know anything about it… The themes are the power of the media, commercialism, the American dream, obsession with reality TV etc. Banes felt that although these themes were very strong the practical setup of the world and story weren't quite strong enough to support it.

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Episode 561 - You are being manipulated

Ozoneocean at Dec. 14, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Pep Squad, QUACKCAST 561, Tantz Aerine, The Ham, Webcomics hosting, You are being manipulated

This interesting Quackcast topic was influenced by a DDer who has been subsumed by anti-CoVid conspiracy. This inspired me to delve into the reasons for the massive growth in these types of conspiracy and how the current state of the internet contributes to it. I had some theories, but I thought I should do some reading on the subject to see what the real reasons are rather than using guesses to fill the gaps like conspiracy thinkers tend to do. I was quite shocked by what I found.

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Episode 560 - When Fiction Meets Reality

Ozoneocean at Dec. 7, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured music and comic, Ferda Boys, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, PitFace Gunwallace, QUACKCAST 560, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting, When Fiction Meets Reality

We all know that fiction and reality are separate things, but fiction mirrors reality and we suspend disbelief to ignore the parts that are unrealistic so that we often treat fiction the same way AS reality. But there are many tropes and aspects of fiction that ONLY work in fiction and can't work in reality. I was inspired to examine this idea because of our Fetish-cast with Fallopian Crusader and his idea that certain fetishes can only exist in comics.

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Episode 559 - DD Fashion Spotlight

Ozoneocean at Nov. 30, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Cathch 22, DD Fashion Spotlight, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 559, Tantz Aerine, Tiger Tea, Webcomics hosting

Today we're chatting about the NEW news feature that we're doing every Friday: The DD Fashion Spotlight. This is a new way to promote comics without all the restrictions of the featured comic system. To be eligible for a normal Wednesday feature a comic has to have at least 15 pages, be currently updating, not in the top ten, have good writing and artwork, not be adult rated, and not have been featured before. That cuts down the playing field quite a lot but it's what we have to do to make it worth a feature.

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Episode 558 - The surreal adventures of Edgar Allen Poo aka Dwight L Macpherson!

Ozoneocean at Nov. 23, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, c h h t, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, interview, Kawaiidaigakusei, Miss Sisyphus, Ozoneocean, PitFace Gunwallace, QUACKCAST 558, Tantz Aerine, The surreal adventures of Edgar Allen Poo, Webcomics hosting

Interview with Dwight L Macpherson, creator of The surreal adventures of Edgar Allen Poo, now known as The imaginary voyages of Edgar Allen Poe! Dwight joined DD back in the old days, well over a decade ago. Back then he hosted his comic with us, about Edgar Allen Poe. From the very beginning I could see that both it and its author were destined for bigger and better things and I'm pleased to say that came to pass. Through a lot of hard work, with the efforts and both him and his wife working as a team, Dwight has found success as an independent published author with a number of projects under his belt and more ongoing ones in the pipeline.

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Episode 557 - Fetishes in comics

Ozoneocean at Nov. 16, 2021, midnight
tags: Drunk duck, Fallpiancrusader, featured comic and music, Fetishs in comics, Gunwallace, halloween, Halloween Fashion Show, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 557, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Fallopiancrusader joined us as a very special guest to chat about fetishes in comics! It's really interesting and he brings his expertise with adult comics and his wide ranging knowledge of comics in general to bear on the subject. So what are fetishes? Well they're often things that people have sort of a sexual interest in but aren't always associated with sex themselves, they're peripheral to sex. Because of that they're often enjoyed and appreciated in their own right for their own sake! Think of things like body piercings, tight laced corsets, wearing fursuits, spanking, wearing S&M leather and PVC gear, shoe appreciation etc. all things associated with sex that people can also enjoy and appreciate outside of sex.

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Episode 556 - That's What She Said!

Ozoneocean at Nov. 9, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, PitFace Gunwallace, QUACKCAST 556, Sapling, Secrets Of Uncrom, Tantz Aerine, That's What She Said, Webcomics hosting

The other day Tantz Aerine wrote a newspost about an article critical of Squid Game. The crux of things was that the Squid Game creator had said their message was anti-capitalist, while this critic was saying that the author's message with the Squid Game was an anti communist critique and not a very good one at that.
The issue here is that isn't how you do criticism. At all. You can give an interesting reading of something and tell us why YOU think it's anti-Communist, or tell us how it looks through the lens of post-colonialism or new wave feminism etc, but you can't say that is what the author is saying or what the work means, especially if the author explicitly says WHAT they are saying.
This may seem like a small distinction but it's actually very, very important. Bad criticism often tells us what the creator is saying. Don't do that. Don't be that person.

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Episode 555 - Group shots!

Ozoneocean at Nov. 2, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Group shots!, Gunwallace, halloween, Miss Sisyphus, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 555, Superstar Sparky, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

This week we're talking about group shots and how cool they can be! I love drawing them, having all your characters together in the frame is so cool and fun- you can hint at character relationships, have them doing some sort of fantasy activity or just being awesome and posing together. We also chat about some of our fave group shots in film like the beginning of Reservoir Dogs, and the most prolific source of group images ever: album art!

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Episode 554 - Return of the Living Dead Halloween Special

Ozoneocean at Oct. 26, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, PitFace Gunwallace, QUACKCAST 554, Rabbit and Corvid, Return of the Living Dead Halloween Special, Scarred Eden, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting


This year for Halloween we've decided to do another commentary! It's of the 1980s Zombie movie “Return of the Living Dead”. It's extremely 1980s in style. There are zombies, punks, yuppies, electronic music, toxic waste… It's quite an entertaining, quite comedic, nihilistic cold war zombie film with very good effects for the time that really hold up today. Even the gore is tasteful. I am NOT a fan of horror in any way, Banes and Pit lobbied hard for this movie… but even so it was not a bad film. The zombies are animated by a man made chemical contaminant, which is quite an 80s theme in of itself. They're not contagious like modern zombies, there's no infection or outbreak to contain. The problem here is that they're virtually indestructible because of the chemical that animates their flesh, they're also fully intelligent and fast moving, this makes the zombies far more menacing and scary than any modern shambling brainless decaying infected version.

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Episode 553 - Out of date humour?

Ozoneocean at Oct. 19, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, EVA of Asgard, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Out of date humour, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 553, Tantz Aerine, The Designersaurs, Webcomics hosting

I was reading an article the other day about the comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen and how that style of comedy is now out of date, along with The Hangover and Hot Tub Time Machine. The idea is that the day for this sort of masculine, bawdy, sleazy humour has been and gone and that we're more advanced, sophisticated and enlightened now. Personally I took issue with this, I think this style of comedy is extremely relatable and eternal because of it. You can see examples of it going back thousands of years across all cultures because many factors of it are universal to the human cultural experience.

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Episode 552 - Tropes we like

Ozoneocean at Oct. 12, 2021, midnight
tags: Amber Mage, Backwoods, Banes, Cliches we like, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, PitFace Gunwallace, QUACKCAST 552, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Last time we covered tropes we hated! This time we're talking about clichés we actually like. It's quite a bit trickier because clichés are clichés for a reason (overuse) so it's not easy to like them, except in some cases…
For me it's Isekai. That's a Japanese word for “another world”. This is a very old genre, it's basically a story where a person from our normal world goes to a magical world, we see this in ancient fairy stories, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and many others. until the mid 20th century it was the default way of writing any fantasy story. It has always been around, the Japanese were just the first to come up with a popular name for it.

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Episode 551 - Tropes we LOVE to hate...

Ozoneocean at Oct. 5, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 551, Secrets of Uncrom The Balance of Life and Death, Tantz Aerine, The War Below Us, Tropes we LOVE to hate, Webcomics hosting

Tantz explains why she really hates a bunch of tropes that are super commonly used in things, stuff like very obvious plot armour for the protagonist so that you KNOW nothing can seriously hurt them so you stop caring what happens to them and in the story in general, child-led stories where the adults are all useless and ineffectual because it takes away your suspension of disbelief, and amnesia where a huge bunch of the story is erased so the writers can just repeat stuff over and over. Banes and I join it to talk about stuff we hate too!

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Episode 550 - Gaming

Ozoneocean at Sept. 28, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gaming, Giant Bee and Friend, Gunwallace, Kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 550, Tantz Aerine, The Last Aviatrix, Webcomics hosting

We decided to chat about games. Video game and computer games. They're now a huge part of pop-culture entertainment and they've influenced us in many ways creatively throughout our lives. There are many different kinds of games out there, but one of the really cool things about them is that they're able to deliver a kind of interactive narrative experience that takes things further than Film or comics can easily do. Games were also instrumental in the early days of the first big popular wave of webcomics with gamer comics (PVP, Ctrl Alt Dlt, and Penny Arcade) and sprite comics (8 bit fantasy), being some of the most popular.

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Episode 549 - Love stories

Ozoneocean at Sept. 21, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, featured music and comic, Gunwallace, Love Stories, Max Jaw, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 549, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting


In today's cast we're chatting about LOVE stories! This isn't a subject we get into much but it's a huge genre so we thought we'd tackle it. We thought none of us even WORK in that genre till I belatedly realised that Banes and I sort of DO with Bottomless Waitress hahaha! There's all sorts of love in there… Sorry for the sound quality with this one I've no idea what went wrong.

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