Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2024



In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.

An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...



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FEATURED COMIC --> Hyacinth

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2024



Teenage rabbit girl, Catherine Barkley, is left alone to watch movies on the couch one evening in her suburban Minnesotan home during the late sixties. Catherine picks up the phone to an unknown caller who begins making inappropriate comments about her personal life. Minutes pass and the deafening sound of ...

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Quackcast 717 - Stories out of order!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2024

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Non-linear stories are a different way of telling a tale. There are many famous examples (Pulp fiction, Mulholland Drive etc), where the sequence of events isn't in strict chronological order. This style has gained a false ...



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Last Chance to Join the Drunk Duck Secret Santa 2024 Art Exchange! (Sign-Up by Tuesday, December 10th)

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2024


Photo: “Genejoke’s Gift Art for HawkandFloAdventures”. Secret Santa 2023 Gift Art Exchange. (December 2023)

Secret Santa 2024 Sign-Ups Forum Link:
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/179834/

There are less than three weeks until the time of gift-giving. The last day to sign-up for this year’s Secret Santa ...





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Poetry Time 99: Nine Lives

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 8, 2024



Nine. I see the light burning to darkness.
All so swiftly. All so blindly.
Eight. I hear the alarm screaming to deafness.
All so widely. All so loudly.
Seven. I taste the medicine spoiling to sickness.
All so queasily. All so badly.
Six. I sense the odour stinking to foulness ...







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Baby Steps

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Dec. 7, 2024



The end of the year is fast approaching. Per tradition these past few years, I have done an article focusing on setting comic goals or habits for the upcoming year. Last year, for instance, I had a whole bunch of goals to achieve, habits to establish and projects I wanted ...

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Continuity Falls

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 6, 2024






Ain't he!



Previous page:

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2024/nov/19/continuity-falls/

or hit the “continuityfalls” tag to see all them funnies so fahr!

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I'm Out of Order? You're Out of Order!

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2024



I'm Out of Order? You're Out of Order! - Nonlinear storytelling

I finally watched Strange Darling the other night. I think I saw part of a review at some point and dipped out before it could be spoiled.

And boy howdy, THAT'S the way to see Strange Darling ...





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FEATURED COMIC --> Saga of the Wide Winged World

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 4, 2024



A brutal murder of one of their classmates severely perturbs all the students! People are wondering why it happened, who the murderer was, and who could be next. Was it one of the strange “winged ones”? - angels and demons who live amongst the ordinary humans… The enforcement cops usually keeps ...

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Quackcast 716 - Identify with characters?

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 3, 2024

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Is it important to Identify with characters? This question occurred to me as I was watching a rather banal sitcom, Rules of Engagement. I love two of the stars, David Spade and Patrick Warburton, but it's ...


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