Having a love of music, forming a band, struggling together, maybe rising to fame and fortune, then falling from those heights, and then figuring out what to do next…it's a version of the Hero's Journey that can be found in real life.

There've been plenty of ...

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Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision ...

Photo: Life-Sized, Modern Sculpture Adaptation based on the Oil Painting “Yellow Hat Woman” by Edward Hopper. Created by Mr. Brainwash. Mr. Brainwash Museum. Beverly Hills, California. (August 2023)

Nestled in a non-descript corner where Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Boulevard intersect, steps away from Rodeo Drive in the city of ...

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GENEJOKE!
For context, see the DD Awards 2023!


The annual Drunk Duck Awards are already underway!

Each year, this amazing event that is wrangled by the Award Goddess Niccea draws upon the collective power of A TON of DDuckers who contribute their time, art, and creativity ...

Hi everyone and welcome to the Quail-zone
Fall is in the air in the northern part of our planet . And through a haze of cold medicine and sedetives I'mn the bus.



Comic - The John Dana Audition Strip
Author - Frank Valenti
Year - 2008

The wiring on this one is pretty ...

One unsuspecting evening, Sam, a vampire, and Wolfie, a werewolf, are relaxing in front of the television with a full bowl of popcorn. Twenty minutes from now, a mad scientist is going to be blasted backwards in time with a time canon. The resulting time portal from the experiment gone ...

Facing the Downpour the broken sleeper crashes again
Flowing down its back it gathers for a new fall
Racing the Encore the broken sleeper clashes again
Blowing down its rack it gathers for a new call
Chasing the offshore the broken sleeper bashes again
Rowing down its track it gathers ...

Last time I'd written about gender toxicity and what a trap it can be for creators seeking to write powerful characters. It is not something that only plagues the “strong female character” attempt, but also the “strong male character” and definitely the “strong LGBTQ+ character”.

Too many of these ...

Photo: “Mercury Virus Chapter 2: Beasts Uncaged page 3”. Story and art created by mercuryviruscomic; Colors by Jerry Lucas. (June 2023)

Mercury Virus was first drawn on pencil and paper twenty five years ago according to the comic’s history recollected by its creator, mercuryviruscomic. Today we are excited that ...

The world of Masks is similar to our own but differs in a crucial way, that would be the existence of superheros. We're introduced to high-speed action as superhero Flick battles a burning super villain with fiery powers. Despite the vicious nature of the battle you expect things to ...