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Episode 533 - Can Mary Sues be likeable?

Ozoneocean at June 1, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Can Mary Sues be likeable?, Drunk duck, Erin’s space, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Necroblivion, Ozoneocean, QUACKCAST 533, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

We've done a few Quackcasts about how terrible Mary Sues are… well this is the opposite! Tantz postulated that they can be likable and GOOD for a story and then won us over easily by telling us why during our Patreon video. In the Quackcast Banes and I join in, having been convinced of the idea. We talk about how if the Mary Sue is a likable, good person, genuinely humble or altruistic and helpful then that can mitigate their Mary Sueness. Whereas if they're selfish, take their status for granted, take advantage of others or are just there to be marvelled and worshiped by the astonished onlookers (re: Rey), they can be unpleasant.

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Episode 532 - Fixing art to make it less sexy?

Ozoneocean at May 25, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Fixing art to make it less sexy??, Gunwallace, Inhabitants, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 532, Tantz Aerine, The Designersaurs, Webcomics hosting

Tantz made a great newspost about this little trend of “fixing” people's art to make it less sexy, as if there was something wrong with sexy art. I think worst about it though is the implied moral superiority of the “fixer”. They're judging the art as non-realistic and “bad” (because it's sexy), and they set about “fixing” it to gain some sort of social kudos, slimming busts, increasing the girth of the figure, making their pose less provocative etc… I think the exercise would be perfectly fine if the context and the attitude wasn't one of “I judge this art to be BAD because it's sexy, I am fixing it to make it non-sexy and that will make it better! And you will all agree that the original was shit and I have improved it!”.

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Episode 531 - Same Stories From Differnt Perspectives

Ozoneocean at May 18, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Huckleberry, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 531, Same Stories From Differnt Perspectives, Tantz Aerine, Trevor, Webcomics hosting

The famous film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa gave its name to the style of a story that has the same scenes told from different perspectives. Many comics and movies have done this, it's a really cool trick to try. Not only can it help you show a different perspective of a scene it can also show your story in a completely different style when you show things through the eyes of a particular character and how they “see” the world. It can even be a great trick for making a sequel- rather than a linear continuation of a story you show a story that happened in parallel to the sequences shown.

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Episode 530 - What is SciFi?

Ozoneocean at May 11, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Cupcake War Machine, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 530, Starlights, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting, What is SciFi??

So what IS SciFi? Well it's a pretty wide umbrella term and contains a lot of different things. In some senses it's just an imaginative fiction story where science replaces magic. SciFi can simply be a sciencey setting where genre stories take place (romance, adventure, nior, horror). It can be a magical fantasy space opera with a futuristic skin (Star Wars), it can be “hard SciFi” where the story is set in the future but the science is completely plausible, it can be written with strong themes that examine philosophical questions and make interesting points about the nature of humanity, and it can be so many more things too. It's a broad church!

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Episode 529 - Time loops!

Ozoneocean at May 4, 2021, midnight
tags: Akacya the Bounty Hunter, Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, Featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Phantasos, QUACKCAST 529, Tantz Aerine, Time loops!, Webcomics hosting

Time loops in stories are a lot of fun, they can be really complicated and interesting. Groundhog day is the most famous version of this trope. Banes tells me it's a “trope codifier”. In a time loop story characters are caught reliving the same events over and over with the main character being the only one who's really aware of it, Sometimes the loop happens only once or a couple of times, or many, many times as in Groundhog Day and Palm Springs. We chat about some of the different time loop stories, their characteristics and why we like them.

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Episode 528 - How tall are your characters?

Ozoneocean at April 27, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, How tall are your characters?, kawaiidaigakusei, Lyzas Sandstorm, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 528, Starlights, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting


Character height is not something we think about too much but it's actually a fairly big deal: in terms of what the height means, what it means contextually, how the character fits into their world, how they relate to others around them, and how it's like to draw them!
A character can loom, they can shrink down, they can appear bigger than they are due to force of personality or smaller due to being shy and retiring, Largeness can equal power and strength, stupid docility, threat, potential, or it can be used to highlight the strength of a much smaller character that beats them as in many animes.

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Episode 527 - Evil superheroes unneeded

Ozoneocean at April 20, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, Evil superheroes unneeded, Featured music and comic, Gunwallace, Journey Through the Star Sea, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 527, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Evil superheroes are a stupid fad, that's my contention. My opinion. They've been around for a long time but now they're so popular it's becoming a bit of a fad and might turn into its own genre. I suppose Marvel and others have saturated the superhero market so to stay relevant other companies are doing “twists” on that traditional genre, hence the evil superheroes.

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Episode 526 A return to Mary Sue!

Ozoneocean at April 13, 2021, midnight
tags: A return to Mary Sue!, banes, Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, Hierarchy, kawaiidaigakusei, Last Child of Gluttony, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 526, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Mary Sues are always a fun topic!
There are some misconceptions about them though… Mary Sues aren't all female, they can be any gender. Being super powerful or super popular or super pretty etc doesn't equal a Mary Sue, not even if your character super stands out next to all the others, those things ONLY indicate they might possibly be one. What equals a Mary Sue is a character that doesn't have to struggle very hard for anything, a character that is almost universally admired, and or loved (even by the enemy), a character that masters hard skills with ease and ends up teaching the teachers and beating the masters, a character that's destined to succeed and does in spite of internal story logic… All these things and more can add up to make a Mary Sue.

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Episode 525 - Sexual Tension

Ozoneocean at April 6, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Golden Spiral, Gunwallace, Hungry Heart, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 525, Sexual Tension, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Sexual tension between characters is a great way to augment the conflict that drives a story. The audience really wants that to resolve into a relationship or at least an assignation of some sort… The longer it goes on though, the bigger they want the coming together to be, which can be dangerous for the creator because it's so easy to disappoint. it's usually better to resolve the tension earlier than later, OR keep it going forever but keep it interesting and don't ever sour it or make it turn stale.

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Episode 524 - Empathy

Ozoneocean at March 30, 2021, midnight
tags: banes, Drunk duck, Empathy, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, PleaseRewind, QUACKCAST 524, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Image credit: There's Something About Mary, 20th Century Fox.

Empathy is like sympathy but you don't think about it. It's what happens when you see someone get hurt and you wince in pain watching them, it's when you see a really uncomfortable moment in a sitcom like The Office and you cringe, It's when you feel sad when the characters are sad about something.
Empathy is an important tool for audience immersion- if they're feeling that strongly for the characters then you've got them invested in your story!

Funny story… the topic of this Quackcast was inspired by us talking about the risks of “going commando” and the fact that it can happen to women as well as men. This led us to go looking for photographic and video proof, as you do… and what we saw gave us instant empathy for the poor unfortunate. Hence the Quackcast topic ;)

This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to PleaseRewind: Quiet threat, creepy, seeping, strumming, thrumbing, coming CLOSER, inside, peering around, waiting to begin. This is a quiet track filled with an undertone of urgency suggested by the constant quick rhythm and lonely guitar.

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Episode 523 - The Resonance of Folk tales

Ozoneocean at March 23, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Lost in the Supermarket, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 523, Tantz Aerine, The God of the River, The Resonance of Folk tales, Webcomics hosting

Folk tales are the primordial ooze of culture. Nobody knows where these stories began, nobody owns them, They're added to and expanded by successive generations. They spread and grow because they have resonance to all sorts of different people across time, different languages, and ethnicities. We talk about that resonance and why these stories still have meaning for us today, why new ones are still being created, and why you're free to use Beauty and the Beast or Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for your own creative projects without worrying about copyright issues.

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Episode 522 - The fall of a politician and a furry, The ballad of Grey Muzzle

Ozoneocean at March 16, 2021, midnight
tags: Drunk duck, featured comic, featured music, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, politician and a furry, QUACKCAST 522, Shu’Halo: The Balance Overture, Stickman And Cube, Tantz Aerine, The ballad of Grey Muzzle, Webcomics hosting

Today we chat about the disappearance of another Drunkducker. This fellow was a politician in his daily life and a furry in his downtime. On DD he was the author of the adult furry comic Tina's story, an exceptionally well written slice of life comedy comic with adult elements, staring an anthro poodle lady and her human partner.
This man had his online activity taken and used to destroy his political career. The comic which was his passion was used as ammunition to ruin him. We chat about this in our Quackcast! In light of what happened to Gina Carano for her silly words this is interesting.

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Episode 521 - bluecuts34 on X comics

Ozoneocean at March 9, 2021, midnight
tags: Albion, Banes, Blake The Goblin Bilker, bluecuts34 on X comics, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 521, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Today we're interviewing Bluecuts34 who is one of the crew assembling the DD horror anthology to raise money for Drunk Duck! They are the author of an adult comic (Castle of Joy), so Bluecuts34 is on today to talk about adult comics in general! The discussion between Pit, Tantz and Bluecuts34/Mal was fascinating, tackling all different aspects of erotic and porn comics. Castle of Joy is a fantasy X comic with action happening between two characters: one lady and one non-binary.
Subscribe to our Patreon bellow to see Bluecuts34 on video and hear them tell us what they think of Milo Manara and his erotic comics!

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Episode 520 - Fans!

Ozoneocean at March 2, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, Drunk duck, Fans!, featured comic, featured music, Golden Spiral, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, pitface, QUACKCAST 520, Slow Burn A Wildfire Journal, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics hosting

Today we're talking fans! Isn't it great to have them? We're all fans of something, but as webcomicers having fans means they're a dedicated audience who care about your creative output and send their love and appreciation to you- this really helps you stay motivated and inspired to keep on creating and producing new work. Here we talk about our experiences with fans and of BEING fans.

It helps that we're fans of each other. But we also chat about some of the things we're fans off. What are your fan experiences and what are YOU a fan off?

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Episode 519 - Infodump

Ozoneocean at Feb. 23, 2021, midnight
tags: Banes, comics community, Drunk duck, featured comic, Featured music, Gunwallace, Infodump, Ozoneocean, Pitface, QUACKCAST 519, Tantz Aerine, Terra Forming, The FrayFall, Webcomics hosting

In the year 2020, the world had been devastated by a global pandemic, life had changed forever… It's 2021 and our 4 unlikely heroes have banded together, a topic borrowed from the wise and gracious Emma Clare…
My fave “infodump” in fiction is the narration by Nicholas Cage in Raising Arizona. My least fave is the massive long description of fish and how submarine equipment works in 10,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (the novel).
What are you most fave and least fave infodumps?

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