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Episode 358 - Damaged Characters

Ozoneocean at Jan. 23, 2018, midnight
tags: ArGH ZoMBiE, Banes, Damaged Characters, Doc2DWho, featured comic, featured theme, Gunwallace, kawaiidaigakusei, Ozoneocean, PitFace, podcast, Quackcast 358, Tantz Aerine, Webcomics community

This week we mine Banes's ideas about damaged protagonists. Does having physiologically damaged protagonists (as opposed to merely flawed), make them more realistic or relatable? I think we came to the conclusion that this isn't necessarily the case at all, in fact it can mean the opposite sometimes. Where that sort of “damage” can come in useful it making your character more interesting, in that they can make unusual choices that serve the story nicely and stop it being too predictable. Where “damaged” characters were used badly was in popular mainstream comics where the idea became something of a fad and therefore a cliche, and so uninteresting and trite.

This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Doc2DWho. It has the apprehensive feel of oldschool Doctor Who, entering the darkness and unknown, this music is spatial and atmospheric.

THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO DONATED TO OUR INDIEGOGO!

Topics and shownotes

Featured comic:
ArGH ZoMBiE - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/17/featured-comic-argh-zombie/

Banes's Damaged Protagonist newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/17/damaged-protagonists/

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/
PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/
Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean

Featured music:
Doc2DWho - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Doc2DWho/, by Skreem, rated E.

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