Episode 519 - Infodump
Feb 22, 2021
In the year 2020, the world had been devastated by a global pandemic, life had changed forever… It's 2021 and our 4 unlikely heroes have banded together, a topic borrowed from the wise and gracious Emma Clare… My fave “infodump” in fiction is the narration by Nicholas Cage in Raising Arizona. My least fave is the massive long description of fish and how submarine equipment works in 10,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (the novel). What are you most fave and least fave infodumps?
Topics and Show Notes
This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Tera Forming: Yacht rocking into the dreamy sunset, over slowly rolling waves waves of heavy liquid gold and pink, sailing into an unlikely sunset. Rough waters ahead, choppy seas and changing breezes, where will it all lead?
Topics and shownotes
Links
Emma Clare's newspost on Infodumps! - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2021/feb/18/handling-info-dumps/
Featured comic:
FrayFall - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2021/feb/15/featured-comic-frayfall/
Featured music:
Tera Forming - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Tera_Forming/, by I Heart Artists, rated T.
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
Pitface - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/
Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
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