Quackcast 608 - Lovers and other things

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 8, 2022

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There are all kinds of relationships and they're great fodder for stories. The most typical is when two characters are getting INTO a relationship- all that ...



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A Post Fit for a Celebration

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2022


Photo: “Celebration of Dada’s 50th Anniversary”. Café Odéon, Zurich. (February 1966)

History was made the moment Hugo Ball stepped out in the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. Dressed in, “a tight-fitting cylindrical pillar of shiny blue cardboard” that “looked like an obelisk”, along with, “a huge cardboard collar, scarlet inside ...


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Panel By Panel: An Invitation to You

hpkomic at 4:36PM, Oct. 21, 2022



Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

At least, that is what I would normally say before I lead into a post about a page of a panel from a comic on The Duck, but I wanted to try something ...



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Using Stories (or Comics) for Politics

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 24, 2022



So, fair warning, I was dead tired last night and forgot to write the blog post. I am slightly drunk now, so I've got no inhibition whatsoever. And I'm going to talk about whatever comes to mind. So, big shocker for anyone who knows me, I want to ...

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Building Imagination and Sand Castles

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2022


Photo: “The Uncanny X-Men Issue #319, Untapped Potential: Bobby Drake and Rogue Talk About Sand Castles“. Marvel Comics. (December 1995)

Saturday morning was spent mall trotting like a typical nineties mall rat. The mall was like a ghost town in the early hours of the day when every storefront was ...


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Fantastic Bestiary 12: The Na’vi

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Aug. 28, 2022



Another pop cultural fantastic bestiary Sunday. Anybody remember the movie Avatar? Not the kung-fu fantasy one, the tribal sci-fi one. The James Cameron’s Avatar as it was marketed. I still remember it being the movie that REALLY set the standard for what CGI technology can do cinematically, making this ...

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Seriously?

Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 11, 2022



When a dramatic actor gets a chance to perform a comedic role, I hear that sometimes they get excited to do something different but their first instinct is to play up the comedy. In an interview with a comedy writer/producer recently, he explained that these actors need the insight ...

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Poetry Time 7: Beware the Necromancer

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Aug. 7, 2022



This sunday's EPIC poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is “Beware the Necromancer”: Verse four, by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan

On a vacant black morn, was darkness stillborn, a poor and fatherless bastard.

To swirl in the mass, of hell's foul warpath, and evil redeemed for ...





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Recollecting X-Men Trading Cards from the Early Nineties

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 1, 2022


Photo: X-Men Series II Trading Card Collection (1993)

An unopened, cellophane wrapped pack of trading cards is a sleeve of anticipation. The probability of finding a hologram or a rare character card is reason enough to get excited.

Around the time the Uncanny X-Men cartoon gained popularity in nineteen-ninety three ...




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Unearthing old comics

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, July 23, 2022



I’m back! It’s been a hot minute hasn’t it? I’ll be taking over a blog spot once a month for a while. And for today I have a very interesting topic (hopefully!).

Recently, I have been helping out with the improvements to the site here. As ...



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