Writing Overpowered Characters

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 22, 2023




One of the most frequent ways to make characters stand out in fiction or myth is to give them a staggering, amazingly powerful ability. Something that mere talent doesn't give you. Something miraculous, larger than the largest life, unique and insurmountable:

Like a dude that can part an entire ...




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Tracing vs referencing

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Nov. 15, 2019


Screencap taken from video referenced below.

There’s been some controversy going around about tracing vs referencing and it gave me pause for thought. And, of course, after some time, I thought it would be an interesting topic to talk about for this week.

In comics, particularly when it comes ...




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Genejoke Created a Proposal to Reboot the Drunk Duck Anthology!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 14, 2019



Back in June, ozoneocean brought our attention back to getting fixes and a redesign for the site.

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/178185/

Some of these changes included: better page organisation for creators, likes, threaded comments and comment notifications for a better social experience (we have SOME of that ...





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Questioning Rumpelstiltskin's Motives

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2018



As children, we are more open and willing to believe the things that are presented to us as facts. We don't even question the validity of some statements, just take them as truths because that is the way it is.

One example of this was when I was sitting ...



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#Twitter_Feature: Stringy and Mopy

Tantz_Aerine at 12:31PM, Aug. 12, 2018



This Sunday's #Twitter_Feature is Stringy and Mopy by MegaRDaniels! Congratulations!

[url=
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1028724957356929024]Click here to see the entire twitter thread in one twitter moment!


Get your own #Twitter_Feature! Book your Sunday now! PQ me!

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Promoting the duck!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2017
tags: duck, hep, promote, the, us



Promotion!
Hi guys, we really need to Get the name of the Duck out there again and bring in the viewers. Can you please help us do that?
One good way would be to help us make Project Wonderful ads that would could put up on other comics to help ...



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Quackcast 309 - boring action scenes

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 7, 2017

LISTEN!
*Art by Ozoneocean

What makes an action scene boring? Action scenes should be exciting and fun, but often it's just the opposite!
In this Quackcast we discuss the topic of Tantz's newspost from the other day and tackle this hard question.
These were Tantz's conclusions:
- You ...





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3rd DD Meetup is on!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 3, 2016



The 3rd DD meetup is NOW, well in only about 3 hours from now. (11am EST, that's New York time)
We'll be using Google hangouts. Bellow are some instructions on how to do that

How to use google hangouts:
First send your google email address (may work with ...





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QUACKCAST 290 - Characters coming alive

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 27, 2016

LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean

The idea fr this Quackcast was inspired by a Korean TV series that Tantz Aerine recommended called “W” (http://myasiantv.se/drama/w/). The show is about a manga artist who does a super popular webcomic. He wants to quit doing it and has decided to ...


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Advice for creating and using weapons in fiction

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2016



If you want to decent job of it, creating and using weapons in fiction can be quite tricky. There are a lot of pitfalls that newbies and even long time veterans of creating fiction fall into.

1. Number one is simply copying what others have done without understanding it yourself ...



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