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Characters make or break a story. In this quackcast Tantz Aerine brings all her skills as a head-shrink to bear and gives us the low-down on Jungian character archetypes! Jung was a clever Swiss bloke, a contemporary of that strange fellow Sigmund Freud, together they're credited as being the fathers of psychology. What we're chatting about here is a little system Jung thought up to evaluate people's personalities. People just like characters in books can be thought of a mixtures of particular character traits, to whit: The Innocent, The Orphan, The Innocent, The Orphan, The Hero, The Caregiver, The Explorer, The Rebel, The Lover, The Jester, The Sage, The Magician, The Ruler. These are the titles of the traits, the full descriptions can be found on Tantz's newspost, just follow the link bellow in the notes. We had a bit of fun trying to work out what traits define our own characters and then trying to do the same for major pop-culture comic and cartoon characters like Daffy Duck, Superman, Captain America and Batman.
Gunwallace's theme for the week was The Dark Crusader: The sun rises on the vast metropolis, slowly sliding up a gleaming skyscraper, and standing heroically upon the very top, his cape blowing in the wind, is THE DARK CRUSADER!

Topics and shownotes

Featured comic:
Forest Reckoning - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jun/20/featured-comic-forest-reckoning-by-dpat57/

LINKS:
Tantz's Newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jun/16/the-character-archetypes-jungian-archetypes-part-5/
Excellently related advice on how to get readers!
Commedia dell Arte Characters - http://www.italymask.co.nz/About+Masks/Commedia+dellArte+Characters.html#sthash.OGEwxwUr.dpuf
More - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell'arte#Characters

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
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 Dark Crusader - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Dark_Crusader/, by Jackofallnerds, rated E.

Today we're going to chat about how you go about getting more readers on Drunk Duck for your webcomic! Hyena hell did an amazing newspost about it for us, outlining all the ways you can increase your audience here on DD in her fantastic, colourful vernacular! Along with many great analogues from the real world. But I'll cover the basics again in quick point form here:
1. Make sure you have a signature image banner so that when you contribute to the forums people can see that you have a comic.
2. Comment on other people's regularly, recently updating comics, especially the top ten, and others will click on your name to have a look at your comic- make sure you never post “hey check out my work” as a comment though, that will have the opposite effect. Just be complimentary and people will come.
2. Commenting on Newsposts can work as well.
3. Make sure your profile page has enough interesting info about you that someone would want to see your work.
4. frequent updates will put your comic icon on the front page more often so more people will check it out.
5. Increasing popularity through outside sources is done by getting a link to your comic on a popular blog, buying advertising through Project Wonderful on other comics or on The Duck Webcomics is a sure fire way.
6. If you get enough views you comic will go into the top 10 listing and then more people will see it on the front page

Our music theme by Gunwallace this week was for Sword of Kings. It's urgent, regal chase music, Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk meets Ivanhoe. This is an exciting track that conjures scenes of high adventure and epic battle.

Topics and shownotes

Featured comic:
VCR - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jun/13/featured-comic-vcr/

LINKS:
From HH's Newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jun/15/read-my-comic-damn-it-a-how-to-guide/
Excellently related advice on how to get readers!
How to make a forum signature - https://sites.google.com/site/theduckhelp/the-forums/signatures

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
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:
Sword of Kings - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Sword_of_Kings/, by bravo1102, rated M.

FLASHbacks… you have to do them right or they will screw up the flow of your story. That's the theme of the newspost by Tantz Aerine that we stole this podcast topic from. :)
Flashbacks can be expository, they can explain story elements and plot to you, they can push the narrative forward in a (seemingly) non-linear way, they can do all sorts of things, but one of the very worst is when they ruin the flow of your story and irritate your audience! That's what we're chatting about today, the poorly handled flashback and how to avoid it!
Now let me tell you about that time… JUST KIDDING!

Our music theme by Gunwallace this week was Galactic Nebula Race. This is all about speed! Racing, acceleration, hyper-velocity!! Watch those lights fly past faster and faster until they become just a single coloured blurred line… only to see your rival speed past as if you were standing still.

Topics and shownotes

Featured comic:
Will Draw for Food - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jun/06/featured-comic-will-draw-for-food/

LINKS:
From Tantz's Newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/jun/02/flashbacks/
Our earlier take on Flashbacks - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/quackcast/episode-253-narrative-order-and-the-flashback

Special thanks to:
Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com
Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/
kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei
Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean

Featured music:
Galactic Nebula Race - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/GNR_GalacticNebulaRace/, by piki_fu, rated M.

ONE day left to vote for the 2017 DD award design! - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177684/