Tough Love vs. Abuse

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2023



Tough love is so cool, eh? It's going to magic the “whining” right out of you, won't it? You just need to stick out through the harshness, and then when you reap the benefits, you'll realize your tough loving benefactor had the right idea. You'll be ...

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Panel By Panel: ‘Small Gods’ and A Classic Establishing Shot

hpkomic at 1:35PM, Dec. 30, 2022



Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week we're talking about the comic Small Gods, created by Duck user Bof Phaff. Specifically, we are looking at a panel on “page 55 of chapter 6.”

First off, the panel ...



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Showing Movement in Comics

Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 17, 2022


by Frank Miller

SHOWING MOVEMENT

I was talking to my brother about writing scripts for comics and mentioned that I sometimes forget that what I'm writing can't move. I'd start accidentally writing as if it were a movie script, with characters moving around, then realize that I ...




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Poetry Time 10: Sunslit

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Oct. 16, 2022



Some more poetry. Poem Nr. 10: Sunslit


Your shadow growing to blacken the sky
Unfilling the vaccum we rotate inside
Your shadow glowing to blacken the sky
Sealed by the heavenly ocean we´ve seen to forget
Your shadow flowing to blacken the sky
In your reflecton I´ll always ...









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DD update post 14th of October

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 14, 2022





Latest update news

This is the final version of the front page pretty much:
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/


Alexey will now be working on the back-end stuff to make this all usable. There will be things like mouse-over or info tabs on the thumbnails so you can see comic descriptions ...









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Let's chat about Quail's Random

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 30, 2022



No significant update news for the site design this week so instead let's take the opportunity to talk about Quail's Random.

It's a feature on the site that's appreciated by some, hated by others, and probably ignored by many. It's a list of ten totally ...



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Meet the Hero in Stasis

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2022


Tony Stark is glib, arrogant, and a war profiteer. And the perfect Protagonist.

I don't believe stories should be written strictly according to formulas - but writing according to structures that have been established can be helpful to a script when needed.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let ...




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Quackcast 597 - Revelations!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 23, 2022

LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

Today we're talking about a technique in storytelling that we're calling the “revelation”. Inspired by Banes doing an article on the weird trope in movies ...



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DD update post 5th of August 2022

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 5, 2022
tags: DD, news, site, update



Latest update news

The title pic shows DD as it was 20 years ago. It's really not a bad design at all. The fashion then was to have a front page as an image all sliced up with a bunch of active areas working as buttons/links. The top ...



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