Colton Emerson dreams… he dreams of a life of action, daring do and bizarre supervillains, a life of something bigger, something better and more meaningful. Meanwhile reality smacks him down hard. He's working in a dead end job fixing dead watches, being a bastard to customers, and living under ...
QUACKCAST 449 - Star Wars 2 the franchise strikes back
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 22, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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As promised we dive right into the second half of the Star Wars chat! We cover all the Star Wars stuff besides the original trilogy and the ...
Structural Integrity part 2
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 3, 2019
Last week I talked about structure in webcomics, and asked you about how you make your longer-form comics digestible by new readers as well as ongoing readers.
But what about other alternate ways to present a webcomic?
Most of the ones I've read are roughly the dimensions of a ...
QUACKCAST 440 - Character tropes VS characterisation
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 20, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we compare and contrast two ways of making characters: starting with a pure archetype and building it with tropes, or creating a character organically through circumstance ...
QUACKCAST 437 - Old Warhorse
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 30, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we cover the interesting trope of the “old warrior”. This was based upon a newspost Banes came up with last week. He was thinking of Captain ...
The Old Warrior
Banes at 12:00AM, July 25, 2019
Make it So Again
There are certain story templates that we see played out over and over throughout the years, decades and centuries.
One of my favorites is the one where the Old Warrior or the Old Master is called out of retirement to rejoin the fight for one last ...