The Quantum theory of comics! Sound adds a whole new dimension to comics, enriching and enlarging the atmosphere, giving your mind a whole new path of stimuli to explore and queue you into things you just would not have been able to consider without them!
Thanks to Ironscarf for his beautifully sexy and punny intro into the wonderful world of SFX, We made liberal use of his newspost in this Quackcast!.
Indeed, SFX can be very tough to master in a lot of ways, it can be hard to make yourself use them too because they seem a little twee and unnatural, but once to get over that natural reticence they add a whole lot more to your work and give you many more options to explore. They're a very useful tool in your comic making toolkit!

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

Links
Joy of SFX newspost by Ironscarf - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2016/jul/14/the-joy-of-sfx/
Wally Wood SFX parody - http://jeffoverturf.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/sound-effects-wally-wood-mad-mondays.html
Mecha and explosions in Pinky TA - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pinky_TA/5396982/
Hangover and ship noises in Pinky TA - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Pinky_TA/4776698/
Blambot SFX fonts - http://www.blambot.com/fonts_sfx.shtml


Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Tantz Areine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/
Ironscarf! http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Ironscarf/

Featured music:
Planet Chaser - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Planet_Chaser/, by ZeroGee, rated T.

For THIS particular DD Quackcast we were inspired by clever and incisive newsposts made by Pitface and Kawaii. Kawaii made a great post about the idea of going for your dreams before it's too late, using the Paradise Falls trip from the movie UP as an analogy: the poor old guy and his wife never got to go there together because real life kept on getting in the way, eating into their savings… Sometimes you just have to let things slide a little and take a risk or you never will reach that dream.
Pit's post was about always moving forward, and again; not just getting stuck in the rut of routine and the mundane. You don't just want to march forward onto the grey twilight of your life having been stuck doing and knowing the same things. Don't waste your free time solely on entertainments, arguments, and diversions, rather you should take time to work on something- to work TOWARDS something every day… and maybe that will help you achieve your dream? It could be as simple as working on a webcomic, each page brings you closer to the end of the story and producing something you can be proud of and maybe even marketable! little bits of exercise every day will help you work towards that figure you want… Studying or reading on your favourite subject will eventually make you a master of it, and then maybe you can even write your own book on it?
Don't just consume for diversion, consume with the intent to create and advance yourself! Use your time wisely.
Gunwallace's theme for Mailbox Rocketship is quirky, techno, funny and futuristic! It also features some familiar voices!

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Featured comic:
2016 DD Awards - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2016/

Pit's advice about ruts post - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2016/jul/16/pits-massive-gaping-rut/
Kawaiis grab-your-dreams post - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2016/jul/10/finding-my-way-to-paradise-falls/

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Tantz Areine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/

Featured music:
Mailbox Rocketship - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Mailbox_Rocketship/, by Kota, rated T.

Our very own heavily mutated Pitface put up a guest post about her fellow mutants, filling in for HippieVan while Hippy is away fighting the mutants in Japan wearing a tie-dyed sailor suit and riding a Volkswagen battle mecha, as you do in Japan… anyway, as a member of the anti-mutant police force, I had to drag in Pit for questioning! And that's what we did for this Quackcast. Banes and I interrogate Pit on the subject of mutants! Mutants are a forgotten race at the moment: Mutants are the zombies of SciFi in a way; a mob of anonymous monstrous minions who exist to menace the heroes and be gunned down in their thousands. But they're also so much more… Unlike zombies, mutants have a lot more personality and humanity, they can also be far more demonic and revolting than any zombie, they can be any shape, size of configuration. Mutants are so much scarier and adaptable than mere zombies, because unlike zombies they're not always degrading and falling apart, no, mutants are evolving constantly, they can get larger, gorier and more terrifying, i.e. The Thing. For mutant pathos witness the Mars mutants in the original Total Recall:There's a man with a baby in his chest and we feel for him and respect him. We have superhero mutants too in the form of the X-men. Can't forget them!
But remember also that “mutants” are also a very real thing in this world, unlike zombies, in fact we are ALL mutants in one way or another, not just those special people with a conjoined twin or extra nipples or genitals or whatever, all of us have our own exciting DNA variation! I have a big nose, crooked lower teeth and pasty white skin myself, I'm practically a Morlock. So what is YOUR “mutation”?

Gunwallace's theme for Transneptunian is a techno-operatic, expansive cyberdance.

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

Pit's inspiring mutant newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2016/jul/07/mutants-memoriam/

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Pit face - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/

Featured music:
Transneptunian - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/TransNeptunian/, by El Cid, rated A. NSFW

Quackcast 278 is a strange bird! We have TWO things in it! TWO! Not one… but TWO.
First we play the whisper game, inspired by Ms Pitface. So what we did was one of us said something into the camera with the sound down and then everyone else had to guess what we said. Out of all of us Banes was he best. I got ONE right, but as a general rule I was the worst at it. Pit and Tantz were ok… The fun of it was the silly guesses though. It's a great parlour game for your drawing room.
The second part is where we talk about MATURITY. Banes has finally become a man and he shows it by dominating us all. The guy's a beast! Seriously though, there are some interesting lessons about being “mature”… it's not all about that quote “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things”... no, this is more about how you deal with other people, not how you present yourself and what you do with your free time. Plenty of adults don't play with “childish things” but they're less mature than most toddlers. It's an interesting subject!

Gunwallace's theme for Bruno Harm is an appropriate Rockford files style intro for a guy who thinks he’s Peter Gunn. Added comedy lines featuring Banes and me!

Topics and shownotes

Featured comic:
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Assassination_of_Franz_Ferdinand/

Banes Maturity thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177527/
Where Pit stole the whisper game - https://youtu.be/McS0tbHUUpk

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Without_Moonlight/
Pit face - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/

Featured music:
Bruno Harm - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Bruno_Harm/, by Bruno Harm, rated E.