art by Hergé, of course

Hello, hello!
Before I begin my ramblings, may I remind you that the DD Awards are currently being served?

What's that you say? I just did?

Awesome!

F*cking awesome!

How did my “awesome!” change for you with the swear word, if at all ...

Scapegrace needs a new lead singer… and who do they get? MAN BUN! What? Nooooo! But yes, Man Bun Fred looks like being their new official lead singer, mainly due to drummer Amber having a mega crush on him. Guitarist Katie seems mildly impressed but keyboardist Ivy doesn't like ...

I was just watching Midnight Run.

Actually, I haven't watched it in almost a year, if I'm being honest. But I was just THINKING about it. One of the all time great movies. A perfect movie.

I sometimes wondered if there would ever be a sequel to it ...

Rather than write about something I'm good at I thought I write about something I'm struggling with, and my attempts to resolve it. Writing characters with distinct voices.

Comics are usually conversations between characters. Speech bubbles are the preferred way to tell comic stories, as opposed to large ...

If you want to decent job of it, creating and using weapons in fiction can be quite tricky. There are a lot of pitfalls that newbies and even long time veterans of creating fiction fall into.

1. Number one is simply copying what others have done without understanding it yourself ...

It seems that I get into a very opinionated argument whenever the topic of discussion veers toward Neon Genesis Evangelion. Usually it is about how the Evangelion movies are awesome and how the main character is not so awesome. That being said, it has been twenty years since the mid-1990s ...

In case you guys haven't been paying attention, the Drunk Duck Awards 2012 are being announced! In fact, I think today they've posted up the last award- aren't you curious to see who has won what? Don't you want to find some cool comics to read ...

It's December guys, where are all the holiday avatars? CURSE YOU ALL, SHOW SOME HOLIDAY CHEER!

I mean, look at that cute little santa hat monkey! If you have a holiday avatar you are in the cool people club with me.

Also, ozoneocean has started a Quackcast community soap ...

… is up and ready for listening!

Aside from a hilarious clip by VegaX to promote “Duck and Quail”, skoolmunkee is on her own this week. She takes the opportunity to think out loud about community involvement, Google+, and the idea of a site-wide poll.


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Cindy is usually in a bad mood. A shouting, short-tempered, swearing bad mood. Is it her job as a police officer? The bitter cold of a world locked in a new ice age? Or the death of her young son? Probably the last one. Amazingly there are still people who ...