-a famous Star Trek episode that was an anvil-on-the-head racism allegory
ALLEGORY
Back in October, I took a little stab, if you will, at separating horror into various categories. Here's the link to that article:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2015/oct/07/things-that-go-duck-in-the-night/
What I didn't have ...

Allegory
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2016Quackcast 257 - Accents in Comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 9, 2016 LISTEN!
Using accents and different languages in comics can be a challenge, or at least a challenge to represent. Some people will actually have their text IN a different language or even a made up language in the case of aliens, and they'll have translations in a footnote. Some ...
C O M I C S
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2016
There are days that challenge me. There are days that mould me. There are days that have a significant impact on my day-to-day grind. Last Wednesday was one of those days.
In addition to my duties as a webcomic blogger, I have been juggling several other “offline” jobs that are ...
Quackcast 256 - Using and creating weapons in fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2016 LISTEN!
Tantz Aerine, Banes and Ozoneocean discuss the topic of using and creating weapons in fiction and some of the pitfalls involved- all the things you can easily do wrong and do better! Stuff like using overly specialised weapons in too general a role, like giant swords where they'd ...
The Old, the New, History and Nostalgia
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2016
Pop culture is being visited by its own past. There's no denying the excitement surrounding the reappearance of the original Star Wars and X-Files characters after an absence of years.
We all know our mainstream entertainment is stuffed with more and more sequels, remakes, reboots, soft reboots, reimaginings, reintegrated ...
Quackcast 255 - Drunk Duck Improvement Drive
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 26, 2016 LISTEN!
We're trying to fix up Drunk Duck, adding the the comic statistics back in, fixing forums, adding notifications to PQs and MORE, but we need money to do it. In this Quackcast, Ozoneocean, Banes, and Pitface talk about the improvements we want to have on DD, and what ...
Moving the Rock
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2016
The years following my college graduation, the most frequent questions asked by my peers and older adults were: “What did you major in?” and “What do you do?” Initially, the questions would bother me because I could not give a direct answer to the second question without feeling inadequate. What ...
Quackcast 254 - Sexism in your OWN work?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2016 LISTEN!
OMFG you sexist PIG! Heh… today we talk about trying to recognise sexism in your OWN work, what to do about it, and WHY. It turns out it can be very hard to do, and if you DO acknowledged it the instinct is to rationalise it away, justify it ...