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Taking on more than you can handle - i.e. James Cameron and JJ Abrams are good directors and writers ...
QUACKCAST 534 - Biting off more than you can chew
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 8, 2021QUACKCAST 533 - Can Mary Sues be likeable?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 1, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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We've done a few Quackcasts about how terrible Mary Sues are… well this is the opposite! Tantz postulated that they can be likable and GOOD for ...
QUACKCAST 532 - Fixing art to make it less sexy?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 25, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Tantz made a great newspost about this little trend of “fixing” people's art to make it less sexy, as if there was something wrong with sexy ...
QUACKCAST 531 - Same Stories From Differnt Perspectives
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 18, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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The famous film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa gave its name to the style of a story that has the same scenes told from different perspectives. Many comics ...
Bookending with epilogues
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, May 14, 2021
So your comic is coming to end but you still have some small threads to tie up. What better way to bookend the story than with an epilogue? Much like the prologue, the events in the epilogue can take place some time after the concluded events. The main purpose is ...
QUACKCAST 530 - What is SciFi?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 11, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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So what IS SciFi? Well it's a pretty wide umbrella term and contains a lot of different things. In some senses it's just an imaginative ...
Bookending your start - The prologue
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, May 7, 2021
If you’re looking to open your comic by establishing the scene, theme and/or tone of the rest of the narrative then you might consider using “the prologue”. Derived from the Greek term, prologos, meaning, “before word”, the prologue serves as a mini story that is set before the ...
QUACKCAST 529 - Time loops!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 4, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Time loops in stories are a lot of fun, they can be really complicated and interesting. Groundhog day is the most famous version of this trope. Banes ...
When I Come Around
Banes at 12:00AM, April 29, 2021
The other week i finally watched the movie Palm Springs - I think I'd heard some good reviews, and had a vague notion that it was sort of a romantic comedy with a time loop twist. I absolutely flipped out over it and watched it again the next day, and ...
QUACKCAST 528 - How tall are your characters?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 27, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Character height is not something we think about too much but it's actually a fairly big deal: in terms of what the height means, what it ...