This newspost was inspired by this week's Quackcast on testing your writing and knowing your characters. In the comments, KimLuster posted a Mary Sue test and discussed her annoyance in finding that one of her characters scored highly.

So what is a Mary Sue? Everyone sort of knows one ...

Can YOU Guess the Drunk Duck Comic Character and Original Costume?

All you need to do is:
1) Identify the character and comic of the above image
2) State the name of the comic origin of the Halloween costume.
3) PQ/email kawaiidaigakusei the correct answers for your chance to ...

Good evening boys and GHOULS (to quote my favorite crypt keeper).
I hope you have been having a frightful October. Kudos to the Blood Moon making an appearance last week, Mercury Retrograde is in full motion (which means it only appears to be moving in reverse), and Pluto has just ...

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My attractive assistant Skoolmunkee agreed to another guest appearance in order to re-adress this topic.
I asked people about their favourite webcomic genres, why they like them and what makes them so cool and interesting, whether it's the genre they like to read or create in. The genres ...

This was posted on Get Satisfaction, and if you click on that link you can read it there if you prefer, and you can also leave comments there.

I think there may be one thing which they forgot to add, but I'll double check with them before I say ...

MrHades of Vanguard is running a Pop Culture Competition! After checking out that page I just linked, if you can identify the reference you may win some cool fan art!

MrHades
Can anyone identify the pop culture reference? In what movie would I be able to find that vest that ...

Maybe some of you missed this since it's in the Advertising subforum, but ShadowsMyst has started a thread where, if you are looking at doing advertising, she can help figure out opportunities, target audience, etc! SM's comic advertising workshop.

It's a little similar to the earlier thread ...

You can check out the previous newspost about this for more details, but Drunk Duck has undergone a server move (they have tried doing this several times and always met with problems and had to revert it). Most things have transferred over, but:

- there is general slowness which Wowio's ...

harkovast tells me that his (and ifelldownthestairs's) review comic The Webcomic Review Comic On The Web has reached 25 pages! (26 actually.)

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Karrel reached 75 *slams fist on table* I demand my stipulated news post *puts fist in a bucket of ice*

Hero by Night on TV!



Many people on Drunk Duck are aware of DJ Coffman's Comic Book Challenge-winning project Hero by Night (you can read lots ofHero by Night stuff here on DD, there are also full books available)- well, a deal has been done and now HBN ...