Tough love is so cool, eh? It's going to magic the “whining” right out of you, won't it? You just need to stick out through the harshness, and then when you reap the benefits, you'll realize your tough loving benefactor had the right idea. You'll be ...

Tough Love vs. Abuse
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2023DD update post 17th of February
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 17, 2023
Site redesign update, NEWS!
The 3 main things we have in this update are pagination of comments on newsposts (will apply to comments on comics etc too), themed placeholder thumbnails for comics that don't have them, and the implementation of a logo that resizes dynamically with the screensize! I ...
The Modern Classics: Die Hard
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 16, 2023
Die Hard was a surprise smash hit back in the day, and became famous in some circles as a template for screenwriters to pitch their stories (“It's Die Hard on a bus”…or a boat, or a jet, or in a house).
It's also talked about as a ...
Quackcast 622 - Whaddaya take me for?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 14, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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This is when the writer leads you to think something big has happened in the story, like a character dying or falling in love or winning a ...
Toxic Positivity, Toxic Acceptance (Part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2023
So last time, in Part 1 of this discussion of …sunnier villains or antagonists, we had left off talking about how toxic positivity is all about the toxic person's comfort. And that this need to impose a certain behavior, dogma, and/or approach to reality in their environment leads ...
Panel By Panel: ‘Simply Sarah" and a Visual Ending
hpkomic at 1:30PM, Feb. 10, 2023
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week's topic is special, covering an ending to a popular comic on The Duck. It is also unique, as I will not show the page for spoiler reasons. I'll be ...
Shmuck Bait
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 9, 2023
Shmuck Bait is the name, I think coined by one of the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul writers, where a cliffhanger or shocking ending leads the audience to believe something major has changed. For example, the appearance that a major character has died. But when the next episode/issue/book ...
Quackcast 621 - Live Laugh Love
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 7, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Toxic positivity can take all sorts of forms, but I think it's most easily recognised by someone telling you to be happy about something when you ...
What it says on my wooden Snake Staff
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2023
Hi, everyone!
Gonna be away this weekend, so I thought I’d just post something quick from my own personal life. My wooden snake staff. The same one that you see on this pic from a photo I took just this morning. Me and my dad carved it together back ...
Overworking in webcomics
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2023
With the ever expanding influence of Webtoons, more and more people are flocking to webcomic sites to read comics. I say read, but really it is “consume”. In this day and age where content is being inhaled at an unprecedented rate, creators are being pushed further to create more. Longer ...