This is an article I’m writing after midnight while being drunk on mixed drinks of brännvin and julmust. It’s November. I need booze to cope with the Scandinavian winter gloom that hits your soul like a hammer this time of the year (It’s a thing up here ...

Photo: “Prologue_3” drawn by Hykarige. Silences Echo. (November 2022)

Milestone Announcement for “Silences Echo” by Hykarige (2022)

This week, we have a special welcome to Hykarige who has joined The Duck within the last month and has already surpassed the twenty-five page milestone.

“Hello, I'm Hykarige and recently began ...

So I just watched the latest Trope Talk by Overly Sharkastic Productions on Youtube (high recommend if you aren't already subscribed). The focus was on Doomed Heroes, and there's not much I'd be able to add to that comprehensive essay. Go watch it.

What it did inspire ...

Last week we talked about alternate endings in movies like Army of Darkness, Clerks, and Little Shop of Horrors.

In the comments, you mentioned classics that I can't believe I didn't mention, including CLUE, which was made with four different endings to be played randomly in different theaters ...

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 ...

Photo: “Red Eyes Pumpkin Dribbler” (Patreon Exclusive). Pumpkin and Carving Knife. Carved by HawkandFloAdventures. (October 2022)

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Blessed Days by InkyMoondrop



Hi,

I want to announce the chapter 2 milestone. If it's not too early after the last one (or not too late now, that Chapter 3 will begin ...

It's almost Halloween!

…and it isn't part of my culture. It's only recently started to become a “novelty thing” in Greece, and we totally don't quite get it the way people who actually celebrate it likely do. So I don't want to talk about Halloween ...

Photo: “Crimson Stars: Chapter 1 Page 27” by Commissar_Tarkin. (October 2022)

Here is a Message from Commissar_Tarkin delivered to all the good citizens on the Duck—

“Hello! I've been told on the discord server that I can contact you about the fact that our comic is approaching the end ...

Poem Nr. 11: Nine Lives


Nine. I see the light burning to darkness.
All so swiftly. All so blindly.
Eight. I hear the alarm screaming to deafness.
All so widely. All so loudly.
Seven. I taste the medicine spoiling to sickness.
All so queasily. All so badly.
Six. I sense ...

Levana is a female vampire, (also known as Vampire Girl). She lives a life of Irony. And when she is running on a shortage of blood supply, she retreats to the hospital to get her fix. Levana’s outdoor attire make her reigning champion of Social Distancing (because she is ...