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This is a weird one to encapsulate, but it was based on an idea I had while re-watching Star Trek the Next Generation and I had to explore it with my fellow Quackcasters, Banes and ...

Quackcast 743 - Lore vs reality
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 10, 2025Quackcast 739 - Deferring to Experts
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Artwork from Key of Dreams
When you're working on a project with other people, a comic collaboration for example, it's usually best to decide on different roles for everyone according to what they ...
Writing what you don't want to write
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 27, 2025
I'm having to write a short speech to give at a friend's memorial service next month, and I'm finding it difficult. It's not the words that I'm struggling with, it's more the entire concept of what I'm doing. So, as a distraction from ...
Nature As Antagonist
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 22, 2025
There is nothing more humbling against human hubris than Nature herself.
Even at humanity's peak expansion, technology, sophistication, education, or intelligence, all it takes for its eradication is for the earth to sneeze in just the right way.
Nature cannot be beaten or tamed. It can only be appeased ...
The Break Into 3
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 16, 2025
Last Week we looked at the “Break Into 2”, the transition between the beginning of a story: The “Before” picture of the Protagonist and their world, and the “Upside Down World” of Act 2.
So, a little later in your average story will come the “Break Into 3”. This leaves ...
Character Deep Dive: Vladimir Chekhov
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2024
It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!
The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...
Panel By Panel: Scripting (with examples!)
hpkomic at 3:53PM, July 5, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Last time, I asked about how you all scripted your comics and got a lot of interesting responses I wanted to run through here. So let’s run through all of them.
First ...
Dem Rabbits
Banes at 12:00AM, May 16, 2024
I was thinking about the idea of characters who have a dream of something - a wonderful life, a perfect situation, and are living for the possibility of getting there.
For me, the story that hits this hardest is Of Mice and Men, where George and Lenny, struggling during the Depression ...
Quackcast 686 - May the fourth be with you
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 7, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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We recorded the Quackcast on the 4th of May, which of course means that it was “May the fourth”, the Star Wars celebration date! So we decided to talk about Star Wars, but instead of our usual ...