An Analysis of a Polarizing Character

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 10, 2015



It seems that I get into a very opinionated argument whenever the topic of discussion veers toward Neon Genesis Evangelion. Usually it is about how the Evangelion movies are awesome and how the main character is not so awesome. That being said, it has been twenty years since the mid-1990s ...

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Guest Post by Ironscarf - How To Scupper Your Life

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 17, 2015



It is midsummer, somewhere in the British Midlands and sometime in the mid seventies. It is almost midnight. In a suburban semi-detached house, a teenage girl and her young brother are awaiting the return of their parents. A young man of impressionable age waits with them as they bathe in ...

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Guest Post by KimLuster - Mind March

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 10, 2015



(The following perspective piece may be more representative of a deranged mind than of a model that will actual work – attempt to replicate at your own risk)

A while back there was a discussion here on the Duck about what gives us renewed inspiration for our art, about the sorts ...



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Guest Post by Kroatz - How I'll Spend my Weekend

HippieVan at 12:00AM, April 3, 2015



I’m going to wake up, I’m quite sure of that. I’ve woken up many times before, and I currently have no real interest in changing that habit. So, first I am going to sleep, have some dangerous and weird adventures that I will either forget or repress ...

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Avoiding the Mary Sue (+ a contest!)

HippieVan at 12:00AM, March 6, 2015



This newspost was inspired by this week's Quackcast on testing your writing and knowing your characters. In the comments, KimLuster posted a Mary Sue test and discussed her annoyance in finding that one of her characters scored highly.

So what is a Mary Sue? Everyone sort of knows one ...



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Love Triangles

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2015



I hope that all you lovely DDers are celebrating this Valentine's Day in happy, stable relationships - or happy, stable singledom! As for me, I love a good (fictional) love triangle. What's the point of a love story if it's not unnecessarily complicated, right? Here are some of ...

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Bringing Old School V-Day Back!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2015



2015 VALENTINE'S DAY CARDS (Drunk Duck Style)

It is finally February, which means that Valentine's Day is in less than two weeks. I do not know how the holiday is celebrated all over the world, but I do know that it has become a polarizing holiday between couples ...



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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Lite Bites Calling for Artists

HippieVan at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2014



Lite Bites needs artists! Lite Bites is a long-running community project where artists and writers come together on short comics.

From Genejoke:
“We have various shot scripts awaiting artists, however, in an attempt to try something a little different I'm looking to get Operation moon 2 drawn but a ...




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FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Representation in comics

HippieVan at 12:00AM, July 11, 2014



I've written about Archie comics before - it seems every time I go searching for comic news they've got some new gimmick. (See my “jumping the shark” newspost, about Archie being killed off)

This time, they've added yet another character to the Archie comics line up in an ...



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FEATURED COMIC --> ATHENA SCULPTURE

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 4, 2014



Summary:
The wastes are a hard place to survive in, it's a dog eat dog world out there. Lives are nasty, brutal and short. A Pair of wanderers fight for their existence in this place and along the way they pick up a young lad.
Athena Sculpture has amazing ...



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