The Drunk Duck Quackcast

In this Quackcast we cover a few different things! FIRST up is our latest campaign to give YOU comment and reply notifications so that you can see who has commented on your comic pages easily, you can respond to them right away, then they'll KNOW you replied and they can respond back and so on. But before we can do that we need to raise money via Indiegogo to pay for it. YOU will be helping to pay for a feature that you want. That's how the site works these days, it's our site: yours and mine. In the next part of the Quackcast we have a series of short plays that we act out. They're based on comics here at DD. We start out with custom scripts written by Tantz Aerine for Without Moonlight and Brave Resistance. And then we have a go interpreting comic pages of The Epic of Blitzov, Bottomless Waitress, Typical Strange, and Pinky TA. Which brings us to our next thing: One of the perks you can pay for to help us out with our campaign will be a custom script based on your comic. WE will write it and act it out. YOU don't have to do anything but donate. Finally we have a note from KAM that we read out, informing us of the experience of adapting his comic into a script structure and we talk about that ourselves. If you'd like to write a script for us to act out on the Quackcast, just PQ me and I'll tell you where to send it. :) This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Bram and Vlad: Welcome to the mysterious, echoing notes of a celestial funhouse. Then settle down to a demonic, yet friendly game of cards accompanied by a jaunty, yet cheeky tune on the piano! Topics and shownotes **Help add notifications for new comments!** Contribute here - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/drunk-duck-improvements-notifications-community-website/x/4410947#/ *Please* help us add this improvement to DD so you can get notifications for new comments and replies! Featured comic: Really - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/dec/05/featured-comic-really/ The comic versions of our plays so you can compare them: Without Moonlight - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/5474204/ Brave Resistance 1 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Brave_Resistance/5369318/ Brave Resistance 2 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Brave_Resistance/5343944/ The Epic of Blitzov - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Epic_of_Blitzov/5525027/ Bottomless Waitress - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Bottomless_Waitress/5497904/ Typical Strange - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Typical_Strange/5459827/ Pinky TA - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pinky_TA/4855370/ Newspost on scripts - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/16/turn-your-comics-into-movie-scripts/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Bram and Vlad - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Bram_and_Vlad/, by Strixvanallen, Rated E

We asked for scripts and we got 'em! We have five different scripts in this Quackcast performed by the Quackcast players: A realistic, dramatic one to start with Usedbooks where murder is on the menu. Yuki, played by Pitface, is doing a bit of detective work, questioning her dangerous brother Lee, played by Banes. Crater's Edge gives up a dose of fantasy and monsters. Keego, played by Ozoneocean, is a young boy looking after his ailing mother, played by Tantz Aerine. Daryl and Susie is all about gentle comedy. Daryl, played by Pitface, is a dragon with monsters in his head and he lives with a mischievous 9 year old girl named Susie, played by Banes. Constellation Chronicles gives us dark, scary SciFi. Wainwright, played by Ozoneocean, with Marcel, played by Tantz, are two astronauts investigating a mysterious distress signal from an old drifting derelict space hulk… We finish up with The KAMics for a dose of satirical comedy! It's awards time at the Muzzy Mallard and Rosemary, played by Tantz, and Beth, played by Pit, are up for some honours… or are they? It was a lot of fun to act these out! We can't wait to do more. They all have SFX and we've tried to do as good a job as possible on them. Please send us more scripts based on your comics so we can bring your work to life, just contact me directly to find where to send them! Have a look at the link to the newspost on scripts bellow to know what to include with your script. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to The Cosmic Star: Fly on out into the deepest reaches of far outer space with us. This tune will groove you on out there smoothly, past glittering star systems and vast, swirling galaxies. Just lie back, get comfortable, relax, close your eyes and let the universe roll on by… Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Mercenary Bound - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/28/featured-comic-mercenary-bound/ Script links Scriptcast - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/quackcast/episode-350-scripting Newspost on scripts - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/16/turn-your-comics-into-movie-scripts/ Usedbooks, By Usedbooks - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Used_Books/ Crater’s Edge, By Jason Moon - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Craters_Edge/ Daryl and Susie, By MageeJabberwock - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Daryl_and_Susie/ Constellation Chronicles, By Emevsa - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Constellation_Chronicle/ The KAMics, By KAM - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_KAMics/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: The Cosmic Star - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Cosmic_Star/, by Superzentredi, rated E.

In this Quackcast we're talking about writing scripts! But not just scripts in general, this Quackcast is about turning your webcomic into a script. As the creator of a webcomic, a story, what is your ultimate goal, your dream? Wouldn't it be marvellous if your characters and story came to life, played by real actors? Emmet, aka Surgeryhead came along to give us some pointers. He's written many scripts himself so he has a bit of experience. Ultimately we want to do performances on the Quackcast of short scripts written by DDers who've adapted parts of their comics, go to this newspost for details: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/16/turn-your-comics-into-movie-scripts/ Contact me directs for my email for where to send your finished script. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Stuffed Nature - Groove to the cool, solid bass line, with a bright lightning squiggle of keys, and the even pacing of a quiet guitar riff, this’ll get you in the mood for action! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Obsession Eternel - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/21/featured-comic-obsession-eternel/ Emmet, Aka Surgeryhead's comic: Lords Of The Video Wasteland - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Lords_Of_The_Video_Wasteland/ Ozone's newspost on scripts - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/16/turn-your-comics-into-movie-scripts/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Stuffed Nature - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Stuffed_Nature/, by Caddius, rated E.

This is the Quackcast where I get things wrong! Haha, I DO love to imagine that I know everything but fortunately Tantz and Pit are there to correct me! For this Quackcast I was thinking about the way we assign villains when there's a religious theme or anything influenced by mythology really. You know the way Hel in Thor Ragnarok and Hades in the Disney movie Hercules are cast as villains just because they're in charge of death, even though in the mythology they're not supposed to be bad guys at all. Perhaps it's our modern Christian influenced culture that makes us wrongly associate death with the bad guys…? Our topic meanders a little but it's mainly about how our interpretation of mythology and legend in modern pop-culture is influenced by our modern ways of thinking, which causes things to be quite drastically changed. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Puppets and strings - a sepulchral, hollow, sombre theme, yet also grand and portentous! Stirring, melancholic, epic. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: The Constellation Chronicle - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/14/featured-comic-the-constellation-chronicle/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Puppets and strings - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Puppets_and_Strings/, by Emma_Clare, rated T.

Special treat at the start of this Quackcast, a Spang news announcement from the oooooold days of DD! This week's Quackcast is on the interesting notion that talking CAN be action. It's based on a newspost of Tantz's. I'm not quite bright enough to fully explain it here so I'll quote Tantz: “Often in making webcomics, creators may try to have more action than discourse, as it tends to make the comic more visually interesting and give opportunities to avoid ‘talking head’ scenes. However, I think that sort of conundrum is a potential trap that might prevent creators from truly making use of all the potential their story and characters have- because if done right, everything on the webcomic page IS action. Discourse or discussions between characters have a natural dynamic and pacing that has to be tapped in, in order to make the scene itself dynamic and powerful even though the character’s aren’t physical with each other.” Basically, even the talking IS action, not separate from it. The talking give the action meaning and context after-all! This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Energize: Serious beats, plodding purposefully, harsh guitar, flashing like the pulse of a police light, eclectic electric rock, flavours of early 80s ska and post-punk create an unusually tasty mixture! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Spark book 1 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/07/featured-comic-spark-book-1/ Tantz's newspost, Talking is action too - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/27/talking-is-action-too/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei Featured music: Energize - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Energize/, by Nepath, rated T.

A psychopomp is a physical manifestation of death. These are of course impossible in reality since death is a process, not a force or anything that can be personified, but culturally death has very different meanings and resonances! Most cultures have a psychopomp in one form of another, like Valkyries and Charon the boatman to name two, and there are even more in literature and movies. In this Quackcast we go back to Kawaii's great Halloween newspost where she asked people about their fave psychopomps and we talk about a few of our own. ^_^ This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to The Constellation Chronicle - In the cold, blackness of space, suddenly a twinkle appears, bright light shoots out, supercharged particles race on their path into the void at the speed of light, travelling through glowing, spidery filaments as thick as a sun that make up the frozen explosion of a giant nebula, bending their course towards the radioactive chaos of an event horizon, to take a deep dive into eternity, towards the mysterious singularity within. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: My Life as An American Hero - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/31/featured-comic-my-life-as-an-american-hero/ Kawaii's newspost on incarnations of death - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/29/happy-halloween-2017/ Death Parade - https://myanimelist.net/anime/28223/Death_Parade Korean drama “Black” - http://myasiantv.se/drama/black/ Korean drama “Goblin” - http://asianwiki.com/Goblin_(Korean_Drama) Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: The Constellation Chronicle - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Constellation_Chronicle/, by Emevsa, rated M.

It caaaammmmme from outerspace… An unimaginably gigantic multi-tentacled green horror, Banes'thulu'Ary'lth! We only caught a glimpse of his heaving, slimy, scaled bulk but our minds couldn't fully comprehend what we saw and we were all driven insane! In this Halloween Quackcast we discuss Bane's newspost subject of Thursday: Existential cosmic horror! We also Made a Halloween Quackcast VIDEO - https://youtu.be/TvIGQqCbRAk, so check that out and see Tantz dressed as a beautiful black widow, me as a black clad gravedigger, Banes as a hellhound and Pitface as the invisible ghostgirl! We talk about the stories of HP Lovecraft, biblical horror in Revelations, The Path by James Riot, the stories and the writing of Guy de Maupassant. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to The Sunless Children: Flute, violins, and kettle drum stitching together a complex tapestry of melody, weaving a fantastical visual saga though music alone, leading us down an exciting and dark path… till the climax in a clash of bright silver cymbals! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Do You Like Fear - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/24/featured-comic-do-you-like-fear/ Halloween Quackcast VIDEO - https://youtu.be/TvIGQqCbRAk Banes's newspost on cosmic horror - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/25/cosmic-horror/ FullMoon Stories - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Fullmoon_Stories/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei Featured music: The Sunless Children - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Sunless_Children/, by Memoria caelestie M.

Does a horror film without the horror still make sense? If it does then it's probably a really good film… that's what we're talking about in this Halloween themed month! The idea was based on a recent newspost by Banes. We also tapped the massive resource that is Banes for our cover image, which comes from a horror short by Bane's film director brother. Check it out, the link is down bellow. That film, Little Matthew, is a good example of the topic… I won't spoil it, but the scenario and the setup of the film could work just as well without the horror part. The characters are believable and you want to know more about them, this helps you start to care about them, which makes the advent of the horror scenes more effective. In the Quackcast we chat about that, examples that fit the model and possible exceptions. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Pulse Comics. It's Creepy, creepy pulsing electronica, like the burrring, burning and zapping sounds of industrial lasers and mechanical robot arms moving in precise, regular rhythm with delicate movements in a vast, echoing fully automated factory of the future. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Adventures with Captn Heroic - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/17/featured-comic-adventures-with-captn-heroic/ Little Mathews - a film by Bane's brother - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCQKP6E2qo Banes's newspost on horror minus the horror http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/18/horror-minus-horror/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Pulse Comics - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pulse_Comics/, by Lightfoot, rated T.

Some characters are active and others are reactive. Reactive characters mostly only react to things rather than make them happen so they can be very boring if not done right! Active characters are the ones that drive events by doing things and making stuff happen, these characters grab your interest. This idea was based on Tantz's fantastic newspost, we talk it out, coming up with some good examples of each character type. Our epiphany for this Quackcast was that if you want a “strong” female character what you REALLY want is an “active” female character. The mistake people made with the trope was that they thought the female character had to be either a main character or a kick-arse masculine style character, when in reality neither is required. Make your character “active”; making decisions, causing things to happen, having an impact, causing OTHER characters to react etc and they will be a “strong” character. She could be a minor character who never lifts a sword or fires a gun but still be the strongest character in the story if she's the most active. ;) This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Boys Land - This one surprises you, sneaking up with a gentle beginning, then it hits like a bomb bursts of rainbows and warm breezes! Beautifully, the same tune is repeated in many different forms, there’s even a bit of Primus type bass in there. It finishes as it begins, with a gentle acoustic guitar. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Lexi's Fight Against the Dead - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Lexis_Fight_Against_the_Dead/ Tantz's newspost on Active/Reactive characters http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/13/active-vs-reactive-characters/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Kawaiidaigakusei, - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Boys Land - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Boys_Land/, by Boysland_crew, rated T.

How do YOU feel when drawing or writing about something sexy? That was the question put to the erotically charged ladies and guys of DD, who answered in a full frontal, frank and unashamed manner! It's a harrrrd question to answer but we were wiiiide open about it. ;) Does writing sexy stories and doing sexy art make you feel erotically charged, leave you feeling cold, or a little pervy? I contend that if you're doing it right then it should turn you on just as much as you intend to turn on the viewer! Pit, Tantz and Banes agreed with me… but many DDers did not and we read out their comments on the subject. *A few new comments were posted after we'd already done the Quackcast so we couldn't get to them. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to 9th Life: A warm symphony of interlacing guitars, weaving their riffs ecstatically in and out and around each other into a self supporting tower of pure cool. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Journey Through NhauWe - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/03/featured-comic-journey-through-nhauwe/ MegaRdaniels Thread, “Writing Sexualized Pages in your Comic” - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177742/ Newspost about sexy art - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/oct/06/doing-sexy-artwork/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: 9th Life - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/9th_Life/, by TheJolle, rated M.