Emily Thompson is a college student, but also a super hero with incredible powers! We get to see what she can do in the awesome prologue to “Goldstar Of Wishes and Miracles” as she competes in a battle royal for her very life on a strange alien planet against a ...
QUACKCAST 588 - Revisiting Old Ideas
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 21, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Sometimes it's worth revisiting old ideas because you can do them better or explore them deeper. This could be in the form of a full reboot ...
Fantastic Bestiary 8: The Mermaid
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, May 29, 2022
Recently it struck me. So far I’ve already brought up two water-based mythic beings in this series of articles, and non of them were mermaids. Which is why I’ve decided to talk about them here today. We’re pretty much all familiar with mermaids. Though maybe not as ...
Panel by Panel: 'Goldstar' and the Power of the Establishing Shot
hpkomic at 12:00AM, May 6, 2022
Hello and welcome to Panel by Panel, an analysis of panels from comics right here on The Duck and exploring what they do, how they work, and what we can learn from them.
Let's start with our panel in question this week. This one comes from the webcomic of ...
Fantastic Bestiary 5: Witches
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, April 24, 2022
As Easter has come by to melt away the final vestiges of a long, cold winter (at least up in these parts where I live) it feels like a good time to bring up the mythology of witches. Witches have a central role in the Easter that we celebrate here ...
The Problem With Magic Worlds
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 23, 2022
Our world seems drab, grey, mundane. But some escape it through a magic portal that transports them into a colorful, beautiful, adventurous magic world.
A world that is secret, known only to the select few as everyone else lives on unaware in the real world. And yet, the secret magic ...
Fantastic Bestiary 4: The Naga
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, April 17, 2022
Last week’s post of the Fantastic Bestiary dealt with housespirits of ancient Rome. In this post we’re going to the far east, following up on another suggestion left by DD member marcorossi. We are going to study the Naga today. The Nagas are a race of serpentine beings ...
Fantastic Bestiary 2: The Nixie
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, April 3, 2022
In my first post of the Fantastic Bestiary last week I talked about a mythic specie associated with smokeless fire and wishes. In this second post I’m gonna talk about a mysterious, mythic figure associated with water and music. The Nixie is a shapeshifting water spirit that originated from ...