Episode 262 - DUCK Radio 3
Mar 14, 2016
WELCOME to the final part of the Radio D.U.C.K. trilogy! This is where we put all the rest of Gunwallace's amazing songs AND a special treat for you as well listeners: Jimmy's Folly. Our radio DJs have gone just a little crazy this time… the brutish, hard rocking Jimmy Storm, demonic Anastasia Ravendale, and dried up old Rhet Blanket battle it out over the on air turf in the strangest way possible… BRINGING THE THUNDER! Gunwallace's amazing comic themes meanwhile are just as juicy as ever.
Topics and Show Notes
Topics and shownotes
Featured comic:
Satan Ninja 198X - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Satan_Ninja_198X/
Links:
Get your OWN Gunwallace created theme by helping out DD - http://igg.me/at/DrunkDuck
All Gunwallace's projects on DD - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
Gunwallace's homesite! - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Track list:
Typical Strange - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Typical_Strange/
No future vanish in time - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/No_Future_Vanish_in_Time/
Clint - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Clint/
Brave new world - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Brave_New_World/
Prodigium - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/prodigium/
Grueson - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Grueson/
Awfully Decent Fellows - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Awfully_Decent_Fellows/
Easybee - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Essay_Bee_Comics_Presents_Fusion/
Danielle Dark - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Danielle_Dark/
Valentines Dei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Valentines_Dei/
Blood bound - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Blood_Bound/
Project GTH - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Project_GTH/
Without Moonlight - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/
Tiziana - Sorry, this one buggered off. Lame -_-
Deadfingers - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/DeadFingers/
Charby the Vampirate - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/
Modest Medusa - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Modest_Medusa/
Harkovast - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Harkovast/
Busty Solar - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Busty_Solar/
Funk - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/FUNK/
Blackened Rags - Skreem deletes his comics… That happened here :(
Jupiter - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Jupiter/
Dinnersaurus Rex - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dinnersaurus_Rex/
Wizard along the way - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/wizard_along_the_way/
Dragonet - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Dragonet/
Phineus Magician For Hire - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Phineus_Magician_for_Hire/
DD Awards - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2015/
Professor herbert and geo - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Professor_Herbert_and_GEO/
The Chronicles of Bucky O'Neill - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Chronicles_of_Bucky_O_Neill/
Hocusha - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Hocusha/
Chevalier - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Chevalier/
Nothing Important Happened Today - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Nothing_Important_Happened_Today/
Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/
Pitface - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/
- See more at: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2016/mar/14/quackcast-262-duck-radio-3/
Episode 258 - Gunwallace music special
Feb 15, 2016
We have a special treat this time! Gunwallace is our guest and he's brought with him 15 of his fave tracks that he created as themes for DD webcomics. For two years Gunwallace has been creating fantastic musical themes for webcomics, the total is now over 90! He, Banes and I chat about the background behind the tracks, there are some interesting stories, and the music is awesome! Gunwallace is the author of many great comics and a contributor to even more as a writer, such as the Drunk Duck Plays. We hope you enjoy his 15 tracks as well as the 5 bonus ones picked out by me, Ozoneocean, including the theme to Valentine's Dei in honour of the day we recorded on. If you want your own theme by Gunwallace, help up by contributing to our Indiegogo campaign and pick it up as a perk!
Episode 256 - Using and creating weapons in fiction
Feb 1, 2016
Tantz Aerine, Banes and Ozoneocean discuss the topic of using and creating weapons in fiction and some of the pitfalls involved- all the things you can easily do wrong and do better! Stuff like using overly specialised weapons in too general a role, like giant swords where they'd be next to useless, or tricked out assault rifles with way too many things hooked onto them so they're oversized and weight a ton- also copying ideas and tropes about weapons usage without understanding why the exist and in the process making many of the same mistakes as others have in the past.
Episode 253 - narrative order and the flashback
Jan 11, 2016
Doing stories that start with the climax, then flash back, tell what happened to get there: the old narrative style of switching the first few chapters around to make a more interesting story. Sometimes it works GREAT because it throws you right into the middle of things and you have to work your way back to that point… It works very nicely in The Hangover for example! Often it's used very badly- in anime particularly, where they use it for foreshadowing and a tease to try and get you interested in the rest of the story- but anime story structure is so formulaic that all it really does is give you a cheap spoiler. Other times it doesn't work well is when the writer isn't very good so the viewer loses their way in the plot… If the writer is GOOD though you end up with Pulp Fiction. You'll love Gunwallace's theme here- a super funky jazz track for the comic Nothing Important Happened Today. Enjoy!
Episode 245 - fiction influencing reality and the myth of the friendzone
Nov 16, 2015
In Quackcast 245 we TRY to talk about my idea that fictional characters, stereotypes, tropes and situations in media have influenced their counterparts in reality, and in a lot of ways helped to create them. Fictional stereotypes and tropes are made out of simplified models of things that happen in reality, usually by pulling together all the most dramatic, big, bold versions and then turning them up to 11 to make a new, more exciting fictional caricature, that NEW image is then spread far and wide and influences people to imitate it- a good example being the modern “cowboy”. This idea was kicked off by Pitface suggesting one of my characters looked like a douchey friendzoned character. I thought about it and realised that a real life version of this character (who's mooning over a girl in a relationship with another guy), WOULD be exactly as she described, also those characters are common to relationship comedies and so often friendzoned… SO that got me thinking: could the current crop of “nice guy” fedora friendzone exponents have based their crazy theories about relationships on images in the media? -since they don't have much relationship to reality yet they so closely match pre-existing tropes in movies and TV shows. Then we expanded the idea to other examples of media representations influencing reality. Pitface, Banes, and Tantz Aerine join me on the Quackcast. Gunwallace does a lovely theme for Entanglement.
Episode 234 - Climactic Climaxes!
Aug 31, 2015
What's best? One big climax, multiple small ones, early, or delayed? How much should you work UP to a climax? What about anticlmactic events, how important are they? Climaxes are really important in stories. Often you work up to them over the course of a whole series, but each episode or chapter can have them, maybe even every single page. I find writing “up” to climaxes a bit stressful because you have a lot of preasure and expectation there. And when it's over and you've actually achieved it, it can be a bit depressing: where do you go to from there? You can feel a little lost, at least I do. TALKING ABOUT WRITING HERE. My preference is for multiple climaxes. Do you always need climaxes in stories? I don't think you do personally… there are times when things work fine without one, but it does help better with endings. Sometimes climaxes can be TOO big. Way too much of a story can be invested in a climax, it subsumes everything, everything has to tie in with that specific story flow and that can be REALLY had to pull off. If it's not done right it can be massively disappointing. Anticlimactic. Pitface Joins Banes and Ozone to chat about climaxes in stories and read out the contributions from our climactic contributors. Gunwallace gave us a gorgeous theme for Just Another Day!
Episode 230 - Getting the formula RIGHT
Aug 3, 2015
We've talked about formulas before, but mostly in the context of escaping formulas and reinventing them. NOW however we're talking about using existing formulas to create a story, or creating new formulas and sticking to them to come up with your stories. Formulas can be a good tool to write with, along with their close sibling “the trope” they take elements that are proven to work and stick them on a solid framework for you to more easily create your story around. All you need to do is plug in your characters and situation and see how it all fits. Formulas are comfortable for people and make it easier for a writer to structure their story faster AND in a way they know should appeal to people. Enjoy Gunwallace's lovely theme for Rismo!
Episode 222 - Time to Ramble on!!
Jun 8, 2015
Ozoneocean and Banes Ramble On (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-EakzxmO-o) about Ozoneocean rambling on while they catch up after a long three week break since Ozone has been in Greece with Tantz Aerine and Pitface, and then Serbia while Banes and Bravo were plotting to take over the Quackcast. After they caught up we chatted about various pop-culure things like Mad Max Fury Road, Babbadook, Brooklyn 99 and more. As a sort of treat there are some pics of Ozone, Tantz, and Pit here: http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2015/jun/08/quackcast-222-time-to-ramble-on/
