I hope that all you lovely DDers are celebrating this Valentine's Day in happy, stable relationships - or happy, stable singledom! As for me, I love a good (fictional) love triangle. What's the point of a love story if it's not unnecessarily complicated, right? Here are some of ...
Love Triangles
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2015QUACKCAST 205 - What about Bodyshape?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 10, 2015 LISTEN!
Photos by Howard Schatz.
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This week Banes and I were inspired to talk about body shape in the depiction of figures in comics, inspired by some famous images from photographer Howard Schatz's 2002 book, Athlete. In it there are photos of many athletes who're at the ...
The Importance of a Muse
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2015
In Ancient Greece, the Muses were goddesses responsible for the formation of knowledge, namely creativity in the arts, literature, and poetry. They are shown depicted on the side of red-figure pottery and high-relief sculptures. Overtime, the muses have been shown more discretely through various forms of media such as a ...
FEATURED COMIC --> Wicked Games
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2015
This is a dark story about the secret life of Doctor Michael Jones. Real dark. It explores the twisted mind of a hospital worker turned serial killer and his unorthodox therapist who shows little concern after hearing Jones' incriminating confession. Wicked Games examines the fine line between euthanasia in hospitals ...
QUACKCAST 198 - Fallopian Crusader to the rescue!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 23, 2014 LISTEN!
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Merry XXX-mas! For Quackcast 198 Banes and I interview our second ever adult comic creator, the venerable Fallopiancrusader, on the anniversary of his comic being hosted on DD no less! His comic, “Rimjob” is as hard-core as they come. It's a spoof of the story in the ...
Quackcast 197 - The sidekicks take over the QC
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 16, 2014 LISTEN!
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Carrying on from last weeks Quackcast inspired by Kawaiidaigakusei's Thoughtful newspost article “An Ode to Sidekicks”, this time the DD community weighs in on the subject and they give us their wise, educated and highly considered expert opinions on the subject of the sidekick in stories! Again ...
Adaptations
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014
In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...
Quackcast 193 - Representing inner turmoil in comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2014 LISTEN!
- Art by Ozoneocean
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The idea for this Quackcast came from a newspost by HippieVan. She had just read a comic version of Frankenstein and was disappointed at the simplistic way that the character's inner turmoil was rendered. She wondered about the different ways that “inner turmoil” is ...
FRIDAY NEWSPOST - Inner Turmoil in Comics
HippieVan at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2014
Comics are a great medium for action-heavy stories, but showing inner conflict without massive walls of text can be difficult. The other day I picked up a very disappointing graphic novel version of “Frankenstein” - it read like an illustrated summary of the book, not reflecting any of the angst and ...