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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Poetry Time 5: As if to say goodbye

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, July 24, 2022



This sunday's poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is "As if to say goodbye”
by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan


As angels find their prayer in song. As birds to wing do fly.

An orange sun touched an ocean blue. It's words a lullaby.

I sat upon ...









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Origin and My Life as an American Hero 2 have Milestones to Celebrate!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 23, 2022


Photo: (Top) Origin by davidxolukoga; (Bottom) My Life as An American Hero 2 by agentny003

davidxolukoga of Origin has an announcement:
Hey, May 15th was my comic's one year anniversary.

Origin Link: https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/ORIGIN_by_David_Abiola_Olukoga/

Origin Synopsis

Danny Kholes is a regular teenager, until he discovers he ...









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Fantastic Bestiary 5: Witches

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, April 24, 2022




As Easter has come by to melt away the final vestiges of a long, cold winter (at least up in these parts where I live) it feels like a good time to bring up the mythology of witches. Witches have a central role in the Easter that we celebrate here ...


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Android Blues Reaches its 300th Page Milestone!!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 1, 2021




Three hundred cheers for Stahlberg for reaching the three-hundredth Page Milestone for the comic, Android Blues.

Stahlberg writes:

Hi,
I have a comic page milestone,
I just finished the 300th page of my comic Android Blues.   :)
anyway have a great day, best regards



Android Blues takes place in Hong Kong ...









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Help Fund the Epics of Enkidu on Indiegogo!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 8, 2020



The Epics of Enkidu features a hero with Autism in what could be the sequel to the oldest story found in human history.


My name is Ahmed Alameen, and I am from Iraq. I am also the uncle of the kid who inspired me to create this comic and to ...




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Scarred Eden has a Milestone and a Twitch Announcement!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2019



On the 22nd of November, Scarred Eden hits its 1 year anniversary and on that exact day, Aggiebun (aka damehelsing on the duck) is going to be running a 12 hour twitch stream to celebrate! Aggiebun will be working on comic pages, chatting with the audience, listening to music and ...

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Quackcast 325 - walk the line

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 30, 2017

LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean

In this Quackcast we cover the Importance of good linework in comics and different line techniques such as Herge's Ligne claire, the traditional thick line for characters and thin for everything else as exemplified in the work of Mucha, variable line widths as in Manga ...


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Elsewhere Reaching 350 Pages and Started Pages for Book of Obscure Holidays, Lady Unlucky Ten Year Anniversary

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2017



Elsewhere, the comic series, is hitting 350 pages on The Duck this week.

At the start of this year it also started working on pages for “Elsewhere's Calendar Girls- A Book of Obscure Holidays”. It is full of strange holiday, weird facts and humor. This will be going on ...



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A Comic Idea Is Born

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2016



It is sometimes unclear to recollect the exact moment that a comic idea comes to fruition. Sometimes a comic emerges out of ton of quickly drawn doodles over a span of time before any of the characters have names or the story has a title.

I can recall the exact ...



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