Hello and welcome to Panel by Panel, an analysis of panels from comics right here on The Duck and exploring what they do, how they work, and what we can learn from them.
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Panel by Panel: 'Goldstar' and the Power of the Establishing Shot
hpkomic at 12:00AM, May 6, 2022The Problem With Magic Worlds
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 23, 2022
Our world seems drab, grey, mundane. But some escape it through a magic portal that transports them into a colorful, beautiful, adventurous magic world.
A world that is secret, known only to the select few as everyone else lives on unaware in the real world. And yet, the secret magic ...
The Professional as Character and Plot Device
Banes at 12:00AM, April 7, 2022
Better Call Saul!
First, let me apologize in advance for what will probably be a LOT of Better Call Saul related Newsposts over the next few months. The show is finally coming back, and has been one of my all-time favorites. So…BCS Lovefest incoming.
It won't be every ...
QUACKCAST 576 - Retro Adventure heroes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 29, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Retro adventure heroes are an interesting and unique sort of hero. The trope was revived and crystallised by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg with Indiana Jones, but ...
When You Have to Tone it Down
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 5, 2022
I've talked at times about how, as I make Without Moonlight, I have to constantly make choices on what to include and what not to from …reality.
By that I mean that true, documented (and even photographed) events from the nazi occupation of Athens during WWII are so grotesquely ...
Tropes I Hate: Slap n' Kiss
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 26, 2022
I revert to talking about tropes I hate, because I don't want to talk about things happening around us but I still want to talk about something I despise.
Tropes I hate it is!
The horrible slap n' kiss or “slap slap kiss” trope.
Especially prevalent in lakorns (Thai ...
The Disaster Episode
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 24, 2022
The Disaster Episode is a template that I noticed in the different Star Trek series from the 90's.
It's a neat way to separate a big cast of characters into different small groups. And when it's done well, it can be very powerful and show a different ...
Secret Dens of Evil
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2022
Privacy. It’s something we come to appreciate even in our early childhood, don’t we. Forming our own little secret club in a tree house we keep in a remote spot in someones backyard somewhere, for which only our closest friends, and schoolmates of common interests and preferences, may ...
QUACKCAST 569 - Everything old is new again
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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He might not be in the Quackcast right now but he's in our hearts and in this topic! Banes did a newspost about Nostalgia the other ...