And Now Let's Party Like It's 1994!

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 26, 2024



Greetings! I hope you've all had an enjoyable holiday season so far, no matter what you're celebrating and regardless of actual ‘holidays’ are part of it for you.

The end of the year is still about a week away, but this will be my last regular Newspost of ...



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The Christmas Special

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 21, 2024



There's a difference between a Christmas Special and a Christmas Movie. While the Movie is written around Christmas (or Hannukah or any other Yule-season holiday), the Christmas Special forces the show to be written around Christmas whether it likes it or not.

The hilarity ensues when it falls in ...



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Failure

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 19, 2024



Why do we fall down, Master Bruce?

So we can get up again.

That was a line from Batman Begins, back in the day, that the movie made sure to put out there multiple times. It was an important theme they wanted to hit in that story. It's an ...





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Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2024



In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.

An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...



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FEATURED COMIC --> Hyacinth

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2024



Teenage rabbit girl, Catherine Barkley, is left alone to watch movies on the couch one evening in her suburban Minnesotan home during the late sixties. Catherine picks up the phone to an unknown caller who begins making inappropriate comments about her personal life. Minutes pass and the deafening sound of ...

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Quackcast 716 - Identify with characters?

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 3, 2024

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Is it important to Identify with characters? This question occurred to me as I was watching a rather banal sitcom, Rules of Engagement. I love two of the stars, David Spade and Patrick Warburton, but it's ...


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Exhaustion is a character beat

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2024



So I'm exhausted.

A ton of things I'm juggling in real life plus emotional baggage plus stuff I'm doing online plus art = exhausted Tantz.

And because my brain refuses to focus on anything else, I thought I'd talk about how using exhaustion can be a cool ...





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I May Not Know Art But i Know What I Like. Except When I Don't

Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2024



I've been VERY slowly working on new comics ideas…way too many of them…for several years now. One of the decisions for me is what kind of STYLE the comic should be.

To be clear, I'm not a phenomenal artist, to say the least. So i don ...



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Quackcast 714 - Future Weapons

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 19, 2024

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Last week we had an overview of weapons throughout history and how it's a constant game of balance and oneupmanship. Now we're looking at future weapons and Scifi stuff! There's a lot of potential ...


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Panel By Panel: 'Phantom Force 3000' and Pushing the Craft

hpkomic at 3:11PM, Nov. 1, 2024



Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

This week we're looking at another comic by user HawkAndFloAdventures, who has become one of the most prolific creators on the site, grinding out comic after comic. it's very admirable and ...



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