So we love our clever villains, our smooth criminals, the conniving sly characters that use their brains to thwart the heroes and be a real menace. Like the riskiest game of chess, the hero has to match that kind of villain in strategy and smarts as well as determination, prowess ...
Dumb can be dangerous
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 15, 2023Panel By Panel: Reader Request - "Vampire Girl" and Perception of Scale
hpkomic at 7:49PM, July 14, 2023
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I am tackling a reader request! I was pleased to find a message in my inbox here on the Duck from J_Scarbrough asking me to look at and share some thoughts ...
Xade’s Growlution Transforms Toward Fifty Pages; 12 Presentation and 10 Judge Drunk Duck Award Slots Open!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 10, 2023
Photo: “Growlution is Returning in Two Weeks”. Drawn by Xade. May 2023.
MILESTONE
Growlution by Xade
Xade writes:
“Okay! The 50 is uploaded and ready to air on July 12, plus we are live and ben live for a few weeks. I look forward to the spotlight.”
Growlution Synopsis
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On plot armor
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 8, 2023
Ok yes. Plot armor in general is considered a mistake. With good reason. Enough plot armor and there are no stakes left in your plot, and the audience isn't worried your plot-armored characters may not make it. And if there's no suspense, there's no engagement or the ...
Succubus Releases First Kindle eBook; VOTE in the Drunk Duck Awards
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 19, 2023
Photo: “Succubus, the Bloody Mary Murders. Issue #1: The Devil and the Details”. Created by Coydog and TheDeeMan. (2023)
Succubus, the comic, a collaboration by TheDeeMan and Coydog has released its first kindle ebook from the comic on Amazon.
TheDeeMan has written this message:
“Hi,
Just wanted to let you ...
Character Upbringing
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 17, 2023
In the whole “show don't tell” thing that is the holy grail of ‘good storytelling’ (yes but not always, this is for a newspost of another time) what they usually don't tell you is that behavioral patterns are your friend.
To show rather than tell, you need to ...
Quackcast 638 - Rookie Mistakes
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 6, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Beginners at webcomics make mistakes, rookie mistakes. In fact people tend to make a lot of the same mistakes and we're going to chat about some ...