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Banes did a really interesting newspost about panel order and how we read comics- not just left to right or right to left but which panel flows to what and how you get the reader to go ...
Quackcast 678 - Panel order!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 12, 2024Panel By Panel: How Do We Know What We're Seeing? (feat. 'VIRTUS')
hpkomic at 1:04PM, Feb. 23, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
Last time, we discussed expanding the scope of the topics covered in Panel By Panel, but I promised we'd get back to the normal swing this time. We have another panel to ...
Top Five Sci Fi Romantic Couples
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 15, 2024
It's Valentine's Day as I write this, and the day after (or many days after) when you're reading this.
Anyway, I thought I'd run down (or run up) my top five science fiction romantic couples. I don't think I've done this topic before, but ...
Blessed Days (Ch7 Sneak Peak): “Smoke and Mirrors”; Davidxolukoga’s Origin Becomes a Video Game; Cast Your Vote for Best Presenter in the 2023 DD Awards!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 16, 2023
Photo: “Chapter 6- Page 110”. Blessed Days. Original story and characters created by InkyMoondrop. (October 2023)
Blessed Days Milestone Announcement
Message from Blessed Days creator, InkyMoondrop:
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It's that time again!
The 6th Chapter of Blessed Days comes to an end on the 18th of October! On the 20th ...
these dreams
Banes at 12:00AM, June 1, 2023
I could've saved this one for Halloween -
When I was a kid, my aunt (only a few years older than me) sent me up to the attic to get a boardgame. When I opened the attic door, a plastic doll that was taller than I was fell forward on ...
Quackcast 635 - Warcast
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Art: Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano
We're talking about WAR here! Trying to leave out politics, though that's really hard with war because ...
The Slippery Slope (Or How to Make a Great Villain Origin Arc)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 6, 2023
Villains are tremendously important for a story. They set the framework and standard for a lot of things in an unsaid but definite manner: how far your villain is willing to go sets up audience expectations for how big and how dire the stakes will be in the story.
If ...
You Kids Are Testing My Limits
Banes at 12:00AM, March 2, 2023
I was reading a critique of a series, a successful series, of novels. I think it's an urban fantasy/horror thing where the main character has a specific paranormal ability, limited, but useful in her detective work. She had a love interest, who was maybe on and off, but ...
Building Imagination and Sand Castles
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2022
Photo: “The Uncanny X-Men Issue #319, Untapped Potential: Bobby Drake and Rogue Talk About Sand Castles“. Marvel Comics. (December 1995)
Saturday morning was spent mall trotting like a typical nineties mall rat. The mall was like a ghost town in the early hours of the day when every storefront was ...
The Origin Story
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 2, 2022
It's common knowledge that a solid origin story will make a character. It'll often also make the story being told. Origin stories can be and often are the foundation for characters and plotlines, since motivations, plot points, and even stakes are set in them.
But what makes a ...