So I want to talk about the Dread Persephone!
We are familiar with Persephone as the abducted bride of Hades, the floral, pastel-themed, light-hearted girl that brings about Spring and is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of nature and the harvest.
But is it really who she is?
No. No ...
It's the Peak of the Spooky Season!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 30, 2021QUACKCAST 554 - Return of the Living Dead Halloween Special
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 26, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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This year for Halloween we've decided to do another commentary! It's of the 1980s Zombie movie “Return of the Living Dead”. It's extremely 1980s ...
Spreading Out the Two-Page Layout
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 2021
Photo: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 1, No. 285 “Portal’s End”
I stumbled upon a two page-spread that spanned the second and third pages, while flipping through an X-Men comic book from the nineties that I picked up from a local thrift. The comic doubled as a splash page listing ...
QUACKCAST 551 - Tropes we LOVE to hate...
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 5, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Tantz explains why she really hates a bunch of tropes that are super commonly used in things, stuff like very obvious plot armour for the protagonist so ...
Rooting for the bad guy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2021
Normally in stories there is the hero vs the villain or the protagonist vs the antagonist. As the audience, we generally expect to root for the hero or the protagonist and hope for the villain's or antagonist's comeuppance.
But there come those times when we find ourselves rooting ...
Gatekeeping print comics and the Webcomic community
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2021Yesterday I logged onto Twitter and saw this tweet trending.
And ohohoho I knew there was spicy drama afoot.
This origin story of this tweet was an column by Rob Salkowitz titled Who's a creative professional in the comics world? The answer is getting more complicated. He makes a ...
The Early Nineties Obsession with Radioactive TV Shows
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 19, 2021
Photo: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes TV Series (1990)
A click of the remote would tune into mutant turtles riding a pizza shooter while commercials for Nickelodeon Gak and Floam consumed the screen. It was a real zany time to grow up in the early nineties thanks to the creative ...
Intrigue and Scheming
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 3, 2021
Who doesn't love a good intrigue, some scheming in the shadows, some low chuckling behind a curtain?
The author.
It's the author that doesn't love it. Or rather, the sheer background work that needs to go into writing a good scheming plot, counter plot, and the whole ...
On Using 'Shortcuts'
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 26, 2021
One of the latest twitter dramas seem to be around artistic shortcuts, and how consumers of comics and webcomics (often non-artists) tend to scoff at any artist that dares admit they use them.
Comic shortcuts could include pre-rendered backgrounds, using 3D programs to arrange spaces or make sure perspective is ...