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Today we're talking about the idea that entertainment aimed at kids can only be enjoyed by kids and the reason that adults often don't like ...

QUACKCAST 497 - It's just kid's stuff
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2020QUACKCAST 496 - titular titularity!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Titles are surprisingly important for your comic! We don't often realise that when we first start them, but a title is one of the very first ...
Mentors
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2020
I like mentor characters.
This is not just me of course; the mentor and protagonist relationship is powerful. Some of the best moments in many stories are the first encounter with the mentor, the training and sense of discovery for the protagonist, and the eventual loss of the mentor character ...
QUACKCAST 460 - Enough trope to hang yourself with
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Happy 2020 all you lovely people who listen to us!
What we're talking about today are tropes in fiction that bother us because they don't ...
Not What They Seem
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2019
edward norton in “primal fear”
One of the things I like in fiction is characters who are not what they seem.
Like all things, this sort of thing can be done well, or badly, or somewhere in between. It can be fascinating and surprising, or cliche and predictable. It can ...
QUACKCAST 448 - King of franchises: Star Wars
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 15, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Continuing on our focus on movie franchises for the month of October, THIS time we focus on the king of them all: STAR WARS!
This was a ...
On Clipping Wings
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 5, 2019
Today, while on a coffee break with my gaggle of Red Cross guys, a friend told me that he had dabbled in writing stories, after a vignette he'd written at school received an award. His mother though was skeptical, and when she went to read it in the exhibit ...
QUACKCAST 440 - Character tropes VS characterisation
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 20, 2019 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we compare and contrast two ways of making characters: starting with a pure archetype and building it with tropes, or creating a character organically through circumstance ...
Realer Than Real
Banes at 12:00AM, July 18, 2019
Recently I saw a performance of the Muppets' band “The Electric Mayhem” from 2009. Pretty great!
It occurred to me how many years have passed since the heyday of the Muppet Show in the late 1970's. The fact that this young-ish audience was so excited about this show said ...
The Thing With Clichés
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 8, 2019
There is a general idea that cliches, when they surface in the narrative of a story, be it movie, tv or webcomics or anything else, is a sign of bad writing.
There is of course a good basis for this presumption, because usually a cliche is a plot device, or ...