Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, May 8, 2025



But not, it would seem, Alliance Entertainment (AENT). If you haven't been following the saga, which has had more twists and turns than a spy novel, it all began in January of this year when Diamond Distributors, one of the world's biggest distributors of actual physical copies of ...

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FEATURED COMIC --> OLYMPIAN HEIGHTS

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 23, 2025



Super heroes are pretty amazing people with awesome powers and abilities beyond normal humans… but they are still normal humans actually, at least the ones in Olympian Heights. They have normal hopes and dreams, passions, crushes, moments of weakness and hesitation… and yet they try to make the right calls ...

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FEATURED COMIC -->Water Lily High

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 9, 2025



Water Lilly, California, is home to some very strange people, namely a whole bunch of teens with supernatural abilities and some that might technically not be considered as actually being alive. They get into all the normal scrapes and japes teens normally do, plus some extra because of their weird ...

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Events, Ceremonies, and Gatherings

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 27, 2025



No matter what the characters in your story might be doing–fighting crime, resisting alien invasion, surviving in a harsh radioactive wasteland, or just working in an office–sometimes it's fun to remove them from their ‘regular’ activities and place them somewhere different and out of their social comfort ...

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The Tyranny of Age and Time

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 22, 2025



Time is something that affects us all and as we age we become more aware of it because it seems to speed up, things become less permanent, and we become aware of our own mortality and mortality in general. Humans are a very long lived species as things go but ...

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Resentment

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 15, 2025




In designing a good villain character there's a wide range of paths one can follow. From the grandiose villains that want to take over the world and live in volcano islands, waiting for the hero to fall into their elaborate death trap to humanized villains with complex backstories that ...


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Dude in Distress Catapults to 300th Comic Strip Milestone!!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 10, 2025


Photo: “Dude in Distress Strip 300”. Dude in Distress created by EssayBee. (February 2025)

EssayBee writes:

Hi,



Just wanted to announce that last Wednesday (February 5th), Dude in Distress published its 300th story strip.


Dude in Distress Comic Link

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dude_in_Distress/



From the “Dude in Distress Strip ...










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This and That (the power of contrast)

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 23, 2025



One of the main drivers of story is the principle of CONTRAST.

A character in a traditional story arc begins one way and ends up in a very different state of being - the underdog to the victorious hero, or the innocent, unaware victim to the final survivor, or the selfish ...



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Quackcast 722 - Main characters with main character syndrome

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2025

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Main characters with main character syndrome? What is main character syndrome? Well the way we're dealing with it here it's normally a snide criticism you level and someone who seems to think the world revolves ...


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The Break Into 2

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2025


always someone breakinnn' into twooooo…

AN important part of a story is the good old “Break into Act 2”.

It's not the easiest story structure moment to recognize, but it's one of the early ones I thought about and tried to notice in movies I watched.

Many people ...






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