Hello there my fellow Quackernauts! As it’s the spooky season, what better time is there to explore one of my favourite genres, horror. Horror is many things, but at its core it’s intention is to challenge the human mind; to remind us that, despite all our attempts to ...
The Many Faces of Fear
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Oct. 5, 2024Freddy Krueger's special day and the Anthology of Dreams
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2024
We're jumping ahead a bit, here: I meant to do horror/halloween related articles throughout October, starting next week - but I caught a little video that reminded me of a special anniversary happening this year!
Freddy Krueger and his first final girl Nancy down for a 40th Anniversary reunion ...
Quackcast 706 - wrong
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 24, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Being right on the internet is Sooo important…
Being right in life and at all times is essential too! At least that's how a lot of us tend to think. Being told we're wrong, especially ...
Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s Film, The Wind Rises, Ten Years Later
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2024
Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)
Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.
In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...
Panel By Panel: Workshop - 'Omegan Survivors' Part Two
hpkomic at 10:35AM, Sept. 20, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. We return to our workshop series this week. Last time we introduced this week's comic and asked for feedback for the workshop, allowing the community to weigh in and share some thoughts ...
Revenge
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 14, 2024
We love a good revenge story.
The entire journey of a character from victimhood to avenger is one that almost guarantees audience engagement and their rooting for the character on the path of revenge.
The reasoning for that is easy: the character suffered a great grievance that is unlikely to ...
Quackcast 704 - The Cultcast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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The topic we're talking about today was inspired by my ruminations on Bullshido martial arts promo demonstration videos. These are the videos where a martial arts master shows off their skill in a patently fake demonstration ...
Quackcast 703 - Cross Cultural Influence
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Cross cultural influence is a marvellous thing and very enriching to creativity! It's lovely when you can see multiple cultural influences in things, whether comics, movies, art, fashion, music or anything else. It's inspiring and ...
Character Deep Dive: Nicodemus Blacroft
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2024
August ends today, and we pick things right back up with another character deep dive, this time of the fascinating Nicodemus Blacroft from the comic Devil’s Blood by the amazing Dragonsong12!
Devil’s Blood is the story of a city in crisis and the people that are trying to ...