Guess who we had on THIS week? It was Amelius and Evil Emperor Nick! The husband and wife powerhouse behind some very popular comics on DD including Charby The Vampirate and Cwen's Quest. We haven't had them on since Quackcast 10 and 11 which have unfortunately been totally wiped from the interwebs... But that doesn't matter so much since you can hear them both afresh now and they have some goo stuff to say, including talking about the newly revamped version of Charby on charbythevampirate.com that's only up to 50 or so pages as well as the new related project Here there be monsters. We apologise for some slight technical difficulties, but Amy and Nick were good sports anyway and it was a an enjoyable interview!

Topics and Show Notes:

Stand in featured comic:
Typical Strange - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Typical_Strange/
Typical Strange Animated - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPQ36L2uJUXSwgj9jued_pQ

Charby links:
CHARBY THE VAMPIRATE!!! - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/
NEW re-vamped version of CTVP - http://www.charbythevampirate.com/
Here there be monsters - http://heretherebemonsters.us/
Charby Tumblr - http://amy-of-darkness.tumblr.com/
Charby Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Charby-the-Vampirate/490886097681994
Cwen's Quest - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Cwens_Quest/

Special thanks to:
Co-host; Banes, mystical healer - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Gunwallace, multi talented composer - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/

The musical theme this time was for May The Rain Come - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/May_the_Rain_Come/

For our FINAL part of our discussion of story endings we talk about yet MORE ending tropes, methods and styles. In a fit of towering arrogance and indefensible pomposity we even trash the mighty Shakespeare for his ending of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet! Our contributors offered up some truly interesting perspectives on the matter or constructing story endings and we give them their due respect by reading them out in strange voices...
As I've said in all of these so far: writing the end of a story is the hardest part so we hope to provide some clues on how to write a good one. Ad with that we reach the END of our exploration of ends!
Next week we interview AMY and Nick from CHARBY THE VAMPIRATE!!!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
Mechaniko - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Mechaniko/

Our Contributors:

Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Bravo1102 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/bravo1102/
Irrevenant/- http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/irrevenant/
Usedbooks - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/usedbooks/

The Endings thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176173/?page=1

Special thanks to:
Co-host; master sworsdman Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Gunwallace therockstar - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/

The musical theme this time was for Tizania - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Tiziana/

Arrrr, this be the second part of our discussion on writing ENDINGS in stories of all kinds, particularly for webcomics! But we discuss a few movie and TV endings here, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, No Country For Old Men, True Detective, and Dexter to name a few.
Writings endings is the hardest part of the writing process, so it's lucky we had some wise contributions from people on how to do a good job of it! As well as giving examples of likes and dislikes... This is the second in our 3 part series on endings!
I must apologise for the low quality of the recording here, there were very weird delay and repeating effects going on, Banes seems to be singing his own little madrigal at a couple of points. There are a a few parts I had to rerecord later; just a warning about the change of style.

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
Pinky TA is a stand in feature because it updated :P - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pinky_TA/

Our Contributors:
Bravo1102 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/bravo1102/
KimLuster - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/KimLuster/
ElCid- http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Certified_Monster/
Ozoneocean and Banes

The Endings thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176173/?page=1

Special thanks to:
Co-host; bombastic Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Our resident troubadour; Gunwallace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/

The musical theme this time was for Without Moonlight - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/
Get commissions from Tantz, the creator, here - http://tantzaerine.deviantart.com/journal/First-ever-Commissions-Announcement-Please-read-464586754

This is the end, Beautiful friend, This is the end, My only friend, the end... so drones Jim Morrison in the classic Doors song, but this isn't the end, rather it's a Quackcast ABOUT endings! Today we talk about the ends of stories: how do your write good ones? What makes a good ending? What makes a bad ending? What do you hate? What do you love? Well, many people had something to say on this topic of endings, and it's a very useful subject because ending a story is the hardest part of writing it! We could all use a bit of help in this regard, so listen in for tips and tricks in part one of Endings, a 3 parter! Our very first one!!!

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
Legend of Briva - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Legend_of_Briva/

Our Contributors:
Genejoke - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Genejoke/
Usedbooks - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/usedbooks/
Gunwallace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/All_Unicorns_to_Battle_Stations/
Bravo1102 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/bravo1102/

The Endings thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176173/?page=1

Special thanks to:
Co-host, brain sturgeon and rocket psychiatrist, Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Master of swing and other musical forms, Gunwallace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/

The musical theme this time was for Everyone Laughs at the Crocodile Man - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Everyone_Laughs_at_the_Crocodile_Man_v2/

No links to the thing I bought, you'll have to search that out yourselves, it's far too terrible.

In the AMAZING world of webcomics tomorrow Chromium printing presses will print out up to 6 pages an hour!!!! In all 3 colours! Black, White AND yellow!!! For your viewing pleasure comics from many different creators are all able to be viewed AT THE SAME TIME, fully updated every day on our state of the art pin-boards! Comic pages are affixed to a state of the art cork backed board with only the finest drawing pins and tacks!
Well, that's not actually what we were talking about... In this DD community webcomics podcast of the future we talk about all the possibilities that will happen down the road for webcomics: the mobile space, more money for creators, the professional and amateur worlds of comic making getting closer and closer together, net neutrality, and the possible pitfalls that may befall us. We had some great contributions from some wise guys.

Topics and Show Notes:

Featured comic:
The Cull - http://theduckwebcomics.com/The_Cull/

Our Contributors:
Gunwallace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/All_Unicorns_to_Battle_Stations/
Ironscarf - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Ironscarf/
Bravo1102 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/bravo1102/
ElCid - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Certified_Monster/
Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/
Tomorrowcast thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/176166/

Special thanks to:
My Co-host from the day after yesterday, Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
The piratical vampire of audio-phonics, Gunwallace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/

The musical theme this time was for CHARBY THE VAMPIRATRE - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/