One reason why the movie Psycho is so iconic is, aside the expert directing and artistic cinematography, the fact that the one we’re led to believe is the main character of the movie gets brutally killed in the shower quite early into the movie.
What did killing her off ...
The Main Character Decoy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 25, 2017Quackcast 349 - Bad Gods
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2017 LISTEN!
This is the Quackcast where I get things wrong! Haha, I DO love to imagine that I know everything but fortunately Tantz and Pit are there to correct me! For this Quackcast I was thinking about the way we assign villains when there's a religious theme or anything ...
Rain Has its Uses
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2017
These past few days in Greece we’ve had torrential rains that feel like the prelude to a second Flood- terrible casualties included. And that got me thinking that it rarely rains in webcomics.
Usually the weather is dry in sequential art- perhaps because it’s troublesome to draw characters ...
Quackcast 348 - Action Talking
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2017 LISTEN!
Special treat at the start of this Quackcast, a Spang news announcement from the oooooold days of DD!
This week's Quackcast is on the interesting notion that talking CAN be action. It's based on a newspost of Tantz's. I'm not quite bright enough to fully ...
Political Comics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 11, 2017
Considering that a lot of comics have politics embedded in their stories or worldbuilding or actively part of their characters’ parameters, what would constitute a political comic as opposed to a comic containing politics?
In my opinion and from the general descriptions of this budding genre, a political comic is ...
Quackcast 347 - Psychopomps and Death Personified - HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAWAII!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2017Controversial Comics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 4, 2017
I’ve written about controversy before, and how it has its uses. But I haven’t really yet discussed what makes a comic controversial.
There are the usual hype-controversies like gender bending and race swapping in characters, but in my opinion these types of controversial issues are just what I ...
Quackcast 346 - Existential horror
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 31, 2017 LISTEN!
In memoriam of Jason Moon (hehehe)
It caaaammmmme from outerspace… An unimaginably gigantic multi-tentacled green horror, Banes'thulu'Ary'lth! We only caught a glimpse of his heaving, slimy, scaled bulk but our minds couldn't fully comprehend what we saw and we were all driven insane!
In this ...
Talking is Action Too
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 28, 2017
Often in making webcomics, creators may try to have more action than discourse, as it tends to make the comic more visually interesting and give opportunities to avoid ‘talking head’ scenes.
However, I think that sort of conundrum is a potential trap that might prevent creators from truly making use ...
Quackcast 345 - Horror no horror
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 24, 2017 LISTEN!
- Cover image from horror short Little Matthew
Does a horror film without the horror still make sense? If it does then it's probably a really good film… that's what we're talking about in this Halloween themed month! The idea was based on a recent newspost by ...