Character Deep Dive: Raidon from Used Books

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 20, 2024




Today’s Character Deep Dive is on an antagonist!

We’re looking at Raidon Yamamura from Used Books by the amazingly proliferate Vickie Boutwell!

Used Books is a crime-noir thriller involving the story of Kaida, an ex-assassin from a highly dangerous network of organized crime and the different people surrounding ...






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Quackcast 692 - Benevolent racism and other isms!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 18, 2024

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Benevolent racism, sexism, ableism, and whatever other “isim” is an interesting aspect of those otherwise negative things. It's not as obvious in its negativity, it's well-meaning and yet quite misguided. So what is it? The ...


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FEATURED COMIC --> Faeward

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 22, 2024



In a world of dungeons, bars, ale, medieval fantasy, leather, swords, castles, magic and sexy red devil women lives Lidda, a bouncy, buxom, scar covered little halfling with a chaotic, earthy personality. She's a mercenary and we're going to follow her on a job with the scarlet devil ...

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The Comedy Villain

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2024



A fun type of character is the Comedy Villain. This is not a comic relief character in a more serious story; this is the Villain in a Comedic story or series. Actually, they MIGHT be the funniest character - but we'll get to that in a bit.

The legendary comedy ...



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Quackcast 641 - Bodycast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 27, 2023

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Injuries, especially to the head can be extremely bad but people are hit over the bonce and knocked out in popculture all the time. In violent sports ...



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Quackcast 636 - The Cusscast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 23, 2023

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We're talking about swearing! Swearing in comics, types of swearing, the use of swearing, causing offense, taking offense, swearing used as a term of endearment, and ...



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Would You Hit a Girl?

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2022



So hitting a girl (or a woman) is extremely tropey. Regardless of how progressive your story is, a man hitting a woman runs a high risk of being considered lowly or less than heroic. That's because generally, women are considered weaker than men, thus an easy target. A woman ...

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QUACKCAST 561 - You are being manipulated

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 14, 2021

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This interesting Quackcast topic was influenced by a DDer who has been subsumed by anti-CoVid conspiracy. This inspired me to delve into the reasons for the massive ...



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You Have a Superpower

Banes at 12:00AM, June 3, 2021


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Our struggles are probably different in some ways, and maybe the same in others. But as comic creators, there are certain issues many of us have in common:

Finding time to make our comics,
Spending too little time…or too much time on them,
Making decisions about our ...






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The Foil

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 15, 2021



You're watching the main character do their thing, and it's all smooth sailing, when another character comes in the room and sparks fly. You expect them to, and if written well, you look forward to each scene that has them both.

That other character is the foil.

The ...





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