It’s that time of year again. It’s become a bit of an annual tradition. I started setting goals for myself a few years ago. And whilst I have not hit all of them, I have achieved more than I feel I would have had I not set any ...

It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!

The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...

Why do we fall down, Master Bruce?

So we can get up again.

That was a line from Batman Begins, back in the day, that the movie made sure to put out there multiple times. It was an important theme they wanted to hit in that story. It's an ...

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Last week we had an overview of weapons throughout history and how it's a constant game of balance and oneupmanship. Now we're looking at future weapons and Scifi stuff! There's a lot of potential ...

A group of young friends are off trick or treating in the neighbourhood, collecting many lovely, yummy treats and showing off their fantastic outfits, but there's a dark presence on the prowl… They soon find themselves trapped within a scary haunted house with no way out and many dangers ...

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Halloween is on the way and we always do something different for it. This time we're doing a commentary for the 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys! We even dressed in Lost Boys themed outfits for ...

Halloween is just around the corner, so what better thing to do than talk about monsters?

Specifically, what has motivated humanity to create them, talk about them, fear them and love them across time and across culture.

Monsters are generally linked with our sense of fear. Fear is an adaptive ...

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Dragons are cool, aren't they? That's our subject for today, specifically the giant, monstrous beasties of myth, fantasy, and legend. They can be evil, they can be clever, they can be animalistic and wild, they ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Moving away from the workshop format this week, and returning to the more solo-assessments of panels and comics. This week, we have a panel pulled from Marco Rossi's comic [i[Killer Ape ...

We're jumping ahead a bit, here: I meant to do horror/halloween related articles throughout October, starting next week - but I caught a little video that reminded me of a special anniversary happening this year!


Freddy Krueger and his first final girl Nancy down for a 40th Anniversary reunion ...