The safe days turned to open craters
The safe days are gone
The sound days became alarming sensors
The sound days are gone
The sure days burned to fuming cinders
The sure days are gone
And yet—the zen days laid their calming embers
The zen days still come


NaaN ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

So, as I was flipping through comics here on the Duck as inspiration for a post, I stumbled onto a page from a particular comic with two panels that pulled a familiar reference ...

Photo: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” Paul Gauguin. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (1897-98)

A somber recollection carries me back twenty-two years ago on this day when I walked into a class where an inconsolable history teacher delivered a line ...

The sheer power of a good team is so defining that it's a trope. Some of the most iconic characters and beloved personalities have emerged from stories featuring teams of main characters.

Each of them are vital to the story, each of them contribute both in terms of the ...

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We're having a chat about characters that differ from the source material and turn out crap because of it. Characters where the people adapting them didn't care, understand, or even take time to read the ...

ZOMBIES !!!!!
As The long hot summer progresses a boys thoughts are naturally drawn to the zombie apocalypse, one of the better types of apocalypse.



The ZOMBIE / 2009 / byronrempel
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APOCALYPSE JACK / 2009 / Pigz2010
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Amazering Zomby Fighturs / 2009 / TheTJ
So … what do you think about zombies and do you know of any ...

Photo: “Blessed Days: Ch. 6 Trailer ‘0:44/1:08’”. Story and art created by InkyMoondrop. (July 2023)

The Super Creator behind the Blessed Days comic project, Inky Moondrop, has Milestones to celebrate and lots of exciting news this week.

InkyMoondrop writes:

“Hi!

The 5th Chapter of Blessed Days ends ...

So lately there has been a repetitive sequence of events that seems to carry on until some kind of death- of the story, of the company, or of the genre for a few years or so:

1. Disney remakes a classic fairytale or animated feature (live action/3D/etc)
2 ...

So we love our clever villains, our smooth criminals, the conniving sly characters that use their brains to thwart the heroes and be a real menace. Like the riskiest game of chess, the hero has to match that kind of villain in strategy and smarts as well as determination, prowess ...

Set in a time of Feudal Japan, there are two competing clans: the Oni Clan (represented as an ogre or troll in Japanese folklore) and the Fox Clan (a woodland creature). Kisago is assigned to Midori, both members of the Fox Clan, to be her personal escort because he shows ...