Crystal heads to the big city for the grim task of officiating at her brother's funeral. She doesn't want to be there, especially not at the behest of the people he worked for who, who he died for… But she steels herself and does her duty. Things don ...
QUACKCAST 479 - Big ideas in fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 19, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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My original idea for this Quackcast was: “Genre fiction is the best place to explore ideas, straight fiction doesn't do it as well”
What I meant ...
World building basics (Part 2 - Society and culture)
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2020
Last week, I went into the basics of building your fictional worlds. We’re continuing on with our second instalment where we’ll dive a bit deeper into the nitty gritty of world building. Without further ado…
What’s your world’s system of government?
Politics plays a large role ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Coquin
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 12, 2020
Coquin is an interesting collaboration comic that brings together an American writer (Finch) and a French artist (Floch). The story follows a French fashionista named Serena and a British genie in a comic that originally ran as the weekly comic of a feminist magazine. Serena has a very liberal mindset ...
Writing Wise Folk
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 1, 2020
Wise men are like valuable spice for a story. They are also a wonderful plot device, or an extremely cheesy one, depending on how the character is used and written.
Wise men (and women) are often the moral compass to the main characters, or hold some kind of answer to ...
QUACKCAST 463 - Sexposition is not a new thing
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Sexpostion is sex plus exposition, it's exposition with sex on the screen. Tantz Aerine addressed the topic of sexposition in an article last year, but what ...
QUACKCAST 459 - 2019 Year in review!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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It's been a great year! DD has continued to grow bit by bit, we've been stable and a great host for many many webcomics. DD ...
So I Finally Saw the Joker...
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2019
It so happens that as I write these lines, I have a terrible headache. So I can't gather my thoughts enough for the third installment of my discussion of motivations and ideologies and actions, but I think I'm good to write what I'd promised- my review of ...
The Head, The Heart and the Gut
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2019
There are things that appeal to the head - intriguing “what ifs” in terms of world building, and insights into technology, culture, politics, and history that capture the imagination in an intellectual way.
Then there's the heart - stories without emotional connection are the ones that critics and audiences call “sterile ...
What makes your comic special?
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 13, 2019
When you’re creating something like a webcomic it’s very easy to diminish your own work. You work on it every day and, if you’re anything like me, you only ever see the mistakes. During my regular stalking of the comic forums I came across a thread asking ...