One of the most prevalent motifs in fantasy, science fiction/ space operas and similar folklore style genres is that of the Chosen One- the one character (99% the main character/protagonist) that is destined to save the world from the big bad- the evil sorcerer, the overlord, the empire, the ...

The Chosen One’s Origin
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 2, 2017Writing what you Know
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 30, 2017
this pic has nothing to do with the subject; i've just been waiting for a chance to use it
Writing what you know is one of those old canards that show up in writing advice, thought it's not up there with things like “show, don't tell” and ...
Quackcast 350 - Scripting
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 28, 2017 LISTEN!
- Cover image by Ariel ZB for the next instalment of Lords Of The Video Wasteland
In this Quackcast we're talking about writing scripts! But not just scripts in general, this Quackcast is about turning your webcomic into a script. As the creator of a webcomic, a story, what ...
The Main Character Decoy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 25, 2017
One reason why the movie Psycho is so iconic is, aside the expert directing and artistic cinematography, the fact that the one we’re led to believe is the main character of the movie gets brutally killed in the shower quite early into the movie.
What did killing her off ...
Rain Has its Uses
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 18, 2017
These past few days in Greece we’ve had torrential rains that feel like the prelude to a second Flood- terrible casualties included. And that got me thinking that it rarely rains in webcomics.
Usually the weather is dry in sequential art- perhaps because it’s troublesome to draw characters ...
Turn your comics into movie scripts!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 17, 2017]
This came out of a chat between Emevsa (http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emevsa/), Bravo (http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/bravo1102), and I in a thread about turning your comic into a film or TV show.
How about US DDers practise doing short script adaptations of parts of our comics ...
Quackcast 348 - Action Talking
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2017 LISTEN!
Special treat at the start of this Quackcast, a Spang news announcement from the oooooold days of DD!
This week's Quackcast is on the interesting notion that talking CAN be action. It's based on a newspost of Tantz's. I'm not quite bright enough to fully ...
Political Comics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 11, 2017
Considering that a lot of comics have politics embedded in their stories or worldbuilding or actively part of their characters’ parameters, what would constitute a political comic as opposed to a comic containing politics?
In my opinion and from the general descriptions of this budding genre, a political comic is ...
Comedy no comedy
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 10, 2017
Riffing on Banes' newspost from a while ago of “Horror minus horror” http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/18/horror-minus-horror/, does a comedy story without the comedy STILL work as a comedy? And does that make it BETTER comedy than something that doesn't?
I would contend that is ...