It's been said by…someone that a character WANTS something. It's one of the ingredients that makes a compelling character. It's also something that makes a character relatable, even one who's very different from the reader/audience.
Most of us aren't centuries-old robots, but we ...
Three Questions
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 8, 2022Alternate Endings 2
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 10, 2022
Last week we talked about alternate endings in movies like Army of Darkness, Clerks, and Little Shop of Horrors.
In the comments, you mentioned classics that I can't believe I didn't mention, including CLUE, which was made with four different endings to be played randomly in different theaters ...
NaNoWriMo for comics
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Nov. 5, 2022
National Novel Writing Month is here once again. Throughout the month of November writers across multiple disciplines and genres challenge themselves to sit down and write a 50K word novel. Although I am not participating this year, that’s not to say that this month can’t be dedicated to ...
Horror and Technology
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2022
I watched and enjoyed this year's horror movie “Barbarian” awhile back. It starts off as the first AirBnB horror movie - or the first one I've seen, anyway.
It occurred to me that back when cell phones grew into common usage I wondered how horror fiction would deal with ...
Crimson Stars Concludes Chapter One While Passing Twenty-fifth Page Milestone; Hushicho has More News
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 24, 2022
Photo: “Crimson Stars: Chapter 1 Page 27” by Commissar_Tarkin. (October 2022)
Here is a Message from Commissar_Tarkin delivered to all the good citizens on the Duck—
“Hello! I've been told on the discord server that I can contact you about the fact that our comic is approaching the end ...
You Can't Make Fun of Jason
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 13, 2022We are discussing another Anthology to help fund the Duck in continuing improvements!
This stories for this Anthology will have the theme of DREAMS Head on over to the forum thread to
continue the discussion and express your interest:
THE DREAM ANTHOLOGY FORUM THREAD
You Can't Make Fun of ...
Deep and Profound?
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Oct. 9, 2022
Hello, ducks!
Been a while since I did one of these off-top of-my-head kind of pieces. Thought I talk about something that has been on my mind for quite some time. What exactly is deep and profound? A lot of artists throughout history have strived to make their art deep ...
CREATOR PROFILE: John Byrne
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2022
JOHN BYRNE
When I first became seriously interested in comics, John Byrne was at the top of my favorite artist list. He drew many of the classic “new” X-Men books, and was the artist on that series when it first became massively popular. The stories Byrne drew (and co-plotted along ...
Seriously?
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 11, 2022
When a dramatic actor gets a chance to perform a comedic role, I hear that sometimes they get excited to do something different but their first instinct is to play up the comedy. In an interview with a comedy writer/producer recently, he explained that these actors need the insight ...