The Bestest Evar: Revisiting Mary Sues -
And a Contest!
Way back in the day our friend and my grizzled old mentor HippieVan did a post discussing Mary Sues - and we followed it up with a Mary Sue “contest”.
Many of us comic creator and reader types have probably known the ...

The Bestest Evar
Banes at 12:00AM, April 8, 2021QUACKCAST 525 - Sexual Tension
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 6, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Image from Genghis Khan by Miike Snow.
Sexual tension between characters is a great way to augment the conflict that drives a story. The audience really wants ...
Saturday Night Live Finally Spoofed a Rap about Non-Fungible Tokens
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 29, 2021
The moment Pete Davidson dressed in a make-shift Robin costume asking a question about an NFT (one of the more recent buzzwords of the Internet) during a late night comedy show was shocking, but not entirely surprising.
The term Non-Fungible Token (NFT) has been thrown around on many podcasts by ...
To Keep or Not to Keep?
damehelsing at 12:00AM, March 21, 2021
that is the question, right?
Hey, hi – hello, I’m damehelsing and this is my first article.
I’m new to this but I have a lot of thoughts and instead of talking to myself, I can talk to you.
There’s always a spark of joy and a roller ...
QUACKCAST 521 - Bluecuts34 on X comics
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 9, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we're interviewing Bluecuts34 who is one of the crew assembling the DD horror anthology to raise money for Drunk Duck! They are the author of ...
Punch to the Midsection
Banes at 12:00AM, March 4, 2021
In the beginning, we set up our character
Iin the middle, we get them into trouble
In the end, we get them out of trouble.
Sounds so simple! It's tougher than that to pull off.
The middle of a story in particular, as people have talked about, is often ...
Used Books Celebrates its Comic Anniversary and More!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 1, 2021
Usedbooks has two announcements!
First, Used Books celebrated its 14th anniversary on DrunkDuck on February 23rd.
Comic Summary:
“Faced with troubled pasts and uncertain futures, three women must choose forgiveness, justice, or revenge. Closely guarded secrets and old foes threaten their friendships and their lives as they attempt to live ...
Dialogue Should Denote Mindsets
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2021
Dialogue is a very important element of writing. From novels to webcomics to movies, good dialogue will show things seamlessly, effortlessly, while at the same time they are unsaid.
What I mean to say is that good dialogue will have two levels. One level is going to be the overt ...