The 1990's Whiny Slacker Protagonist

Banes at 12:00AM, May 4, 2023



In rewatching some 1990's movies, I saw quite a few of these Protagonists show up - they're these disaffected types, usually quite intelligent or at least verbose, who are wrapped up in their emotions and sort of spinning their wheels in life as they analyze their problems and face ...

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Red Carpet 2023 is Coming Up!

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 29, 2023



The DD Awards, run by DD Awards Queen Niccea, are already under way!

The first For Your Consideration (FYC) pages are already up on the DD Awards 2023 page, so go check them out if you haven't already.

And since the DD Awards are already happening, you guessed it ...





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Back to the Mushroom 🍄 Planet

lothar at 12:00AM, April 28, 2023


HELLO—
I am LOTHAR

I would like to introduce you to the Bi-Monthly spotlight on some of the forgotten or abandoned comics we have lingering in the basement of Drunk Duck. Who knows why they stopped updating or what their authours are up to now. I think here on DD ...



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Fanservice and Nostalgia

Banes at 12:00AM, April 27, 2023


Picard Season Three hit the fan service HARD. I absolutely loved it.


The final season of Star Trek Picard is winning very good reviews from fans and critics.

Of course, in some corners there is criticism of fan service, nostalgia and ‘member berries’ being the driving force behind the season ...





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Writing Overpowered Characters

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 22, 2023




One of the most frequent ways to make characters stand out in fiction or myth is to give them a staggering, amazingly powerful ability. Something that mere talent doesn't give you. Something miraculous, larger than the largest life, unique and insurmountable:

Like a dude that can part an entire ...




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Introducing OLD webcomics!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 21, 2023



You might know of a stout fellow known as Lothar on DD who's been around since the early days of the site…
Lothar - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/lothar/
He authors a very long running adult comic called Grind. I first knew him under another alias and was a ...



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Creator Feuds and Hidden Messages

Banes at 12:00AM, April 20, 2023


Jon Favreau played Maz Kanada. Or Pablo Hidalgo. Or something like that

There are Easter Eggs hidden in media that might be spottable by viewers/readers, and others that the audience would never know unless they got the inside scoop from somewhere.

It's one reason I like commentaries and ...




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On Cruelty

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 15, 2023



So for us Orthodox Christians it's Good Friday today and it'll be Resurrection Day (Good Saturday) by the time you're reading this. In the neighborhood where I live, a new (boisterous and with many members) family has moved in, who brought a live rooster a few days ...

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DD update post 14th of April

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 14, 2023
tags: DD, update


NEWS!

Not much site update news this week so I thought I'd help promote this two big community projects instead!

Have you heard of the latest DD anthology project? What IS the DD anthology? Well it's a community project that's done to help the site pay for ...




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Fake Media - Not the Kind You're Thinking

Banes at 12:00AM, April 13, 2023


my webcomic, Typical Strange, uses many fake films in its video store setting

A few years ago I spotted a book in the second hand store - one I'd read as a kid. I bought it and reread it. It was definitely more suited to the younger me - it was ...


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