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Our topic this week is making your characters individual, distinct and setting them apart through physical traits. In many mainstream superhero comics or manga the only difference between most characters is their outfit, hair, and skin tone ...

Quackcast 652 - Physical traits that set characters apart
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2023Facing the Apocalypse
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2023
If you look up Wikipedia on apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction it will be described as a subgenre in which the earth’s (or another planet’s) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. It can be due to the cause of nuclear war, or climate change, a pandemic (maybe one that ...
J_Scarbrough’s Vampire Girl Goes Out with a Boomsday, Right Before Labor Day!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2023
Photo: “Which Levana Do You Feel Like Today?”. Vampire Girl. Story and art by J_Scarbrough. (January 2021-August 2023)
Vampire Girl by the Duck’s resident, puppeteer-webcomic creator, J_Scarbrough (not to be confused with the Jonathan Richman song with the same title) reached its conclusion on Wednesday, August 30, 2023.
Synopsis ...
Gender Toxicity
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 19, 2023
The debate on what constitutes a “strong female character”, whether having “strong female leads” or “feminism” is tanking “woke” films these past few years, is ongoing. There's accusations of toxicity on both sides. Misogyny, misandry, wokeness and brokeness, all of these terms and hot takes are fired and take ...
Character Deep Dive: Grenadine Luncher
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 12, 2023
In this month’s installment of Character Deep Dive, we’re looking at Grenadine Luncher from the comic Ripping Off King Arthur by Arthur Spitzer!
Before I do any dive, I have to say that due to the unique concept and approach of this comic, I had to really think ...
Quackcast 647 - characters screwed over by adapters
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 8, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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We're having a chat about characters that differ from the source material and turn out crap because of it. Characters where the people adapting them didn't care, understand, or even take time to read the ...
FEATURED COMIC --> RATKIDS
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 2, 2023
There are little rat-like children with superpowers running around the cold winter streets of future Phoenix Arizona. They're part of a despised underclass, akin to the homeless and vagabonds who they sypathise with and help. Many years ago a comet of extra-solar origin was destroyed on a collision coarse ...
Pammertime 1: Everdeen vs. Can la Can
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, July 30, 2023
Everdeen (To the left) Can la Can (On the right)
Welcome dear readers to this humble first match report on the world of Pammering Sports called Pammertime. Pammering is traditionally performed in a 15 bout run between six Pammers called a Derby, but we’re going to pick a single ...
Relearning faces
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 29, 2023
So I've finished Without Moonlight (yes I know I've shouted it from the rooftops already) and I'm starting on a new comic. And prepping WM vol. 2.
This time, as a …seasoned webcomic artist…
STOPPIT
Anyway, with the experience I've gathered, I'm actually building a ...
Quackcast 645 - AI-cast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 25, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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We're chatting about the current state of AI, it's use, abuse, and the moronic way it's typically being utalised by mid-level businesses to screw over creative people and save money in the short term ...