I was thinking about the idea of characters who have a dream of something - a wonderful life, a perfect situation, and are living for the possibility of getting there.

For me, the story that hits this hardest is Of Mice and Men, where George and Lenny, struggling during the Depression ...

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This isn't really a special episode! It's a Quackcast about them. Not PSA episodes though. Our topic was inspired by those weird special non-sequitur episodes in anime and manga like the famous bikini episode where ...

It's that time of year again, where preparations and the first stages of the Drunk Duck Awards 2024 are already underway!

It's about time, then, that the Red Carpet opens!

As it was the case the past years it's been running, this year too the Red Carpet ...

There are always lots of issues with trying to work out what will happen in the future based on current events and current tech, this is why very little SciFi is predictive of the future, unless it's about social trends or politics and even then it's a lucky ...

I first heard the phrase “an itch to scratch” from the creators/writers of Better Call Saul. When they were expanding and deepening the “Saul” character from Breaking Bad, they needed to change a comedic side character into a fully rounded lead character. And Vince Giligan said that an early ...

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We recorded the Quackcast on the 4th of May, which of course means that it was “May the fourth”, the Star Wars celebration date! So we decided to talk about Star Wars, but instead of our usual ...

So it's that time of year where even if you don't want to think of Star Wars, you kinda do. At least if you go online.

So let's wish each other May the 4th and all that jazz, and talk some Star Wars.

There's the Original ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. As we discussed last time, we are doing workshops where users here on the site volunteer their pages for critique. We'll gather feedback and then review it over the course of the ...

Damaged Heroes


A well written, standard Protagonist will generally have some flaws, starting out as an underdog of some kind, with lessons to learn and improvements to make over the course of the story.

Granted, some heroes are, well, just heroes, who are pretty much who they need to be ...

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“Passing the mantle” is an interesting phrase. Many claim it comes from a biblical origin; the prophet Elijah was said to have passed his mantle to Elisha when he ascended to heaven, thereby symbolically transferring his authority ...