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Art by Ozoneocean
Our very own heavily mutated Pitface put up a guest post about her fellow mutants, filling in for HippieVan while Hippy is away fighting the mutants in Japan wearing a tie-dyed sailor suit and riding a Volkswagen battle mecha, as you do in Japan… anyway, as ...
Quackcast 279 - Meet the Mutants!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 12, 2016Weirdos, Loners, and Mutants: How the Uncanny X-Men Taught Me How to Embrace the Outsider
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 6, 2016
-Art by Trico
Like any other backpack-toting American kid in the nineteen-nineties, the one thing I looked forward to each week (well, after TGIF) was Saturday morning cartoons. My absolute favorite show was X-Men The Animated Series which led to frequent trips to old, dusty comic shops to buy Series ...
Quackcast 271 - Pitface’s tales of ribaldry
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 17, 2016 LISTEN!
Art by Ozoneocean
What makes the “meat” of a story? What makes you fall in love with it, keep coming back for more watches or reads or whatever? I contend it has nothing to do with conflict or culminations or climaxes, those are merely generic structural plottings that are ...
Lifting the Block
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 7, 2016
I have been feeling inspired lately. It is not to be confused with the same wave of inspiration that usually happens when I listen to Bon Iver while driving down a highway at night (even though that also works). It is the type of inspiration where a story begins to ...
FEATURED COMIC --> The weird adventures of Armless Amy
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2016
Little Amy is the cutest and sweetest little girl in the post-apocalypse. Of course, her adorable personality seems to attract the strangest of characters from a top hat wearing stranger, happy dolls, white rabbits, Sherry the living doll, Eloise, and Eustace.
This is a mature comic because it deviates from ...
Allegory
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2016
-a famous Star Trek episode that was an anvil-on-the-head racism allegory
ALLEGORY
Back in October, I took a little stab, if you will, at separating horror into various categories. Here's the link to that article:
http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2015/oct/07/things-that-go-duck-in-the-night/
What I didn't have ...
Quackcast 256 - Using and creating weapons in fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2016 LISTEN!
Tantz Aerine, Banes and Ozoneocean discuss the topic of using and creating weapons in fiction and some of the pitfalls involved- all the things you can easily do wrong and do better! Stuff like using overly specialised weapons in too general a role, like giant swords where they'd ...
Quackcast 254 - Sexism in your OWN work?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2016 LISTEN!
OMFG you sexist PIG! Heh… today we talk about trying to recognise sexism in your OWN work, what to do about it, and WHY. It turns out it can be very hard to do, and if you DO acknowledged it the instinct is to rationalise it away, justify it ...