Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week as I weigh possible panel challenges for later updates, I wanted to return to our more usual analysis of panels. This week we're turning to the comic Heaven Hunters by ...

The term “Mary Sue” became a lot more mainstream a few years ago - but around comic book websites like ours, and circles that were into writing and deeper fandom have been well versed with this for much longer.

The Mary Sue is a character who has abilities or positive qualities ...

Photo: “NeverLore: Cover” by InkyMoondrop. (February 2023)

InkyMoondrop writes:

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NeverLore doesn't seem to have an especially great launch yet, but Chapter 2 is about 70% done, will dive into an actual fantasy environment and I think I'll let it return to a Weekly update schedule with publishing ...

Tag Forester is a hard boiled noir style PI working in and around the city of Portland, Oregon. This time his case involves the fallout from the death of an old client… Who will get the money and the house? -his cheating wife who abandoned him when he was dying ...

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HPKomic is a great guy, he's been on DD since almost the beginning. He alternates the Friday newsposts with me, he focusses on the intricacies of ...

Photo: “Twistjam: Morgyn and Lacey”. Original characters from Alone is a Hard Thing Toby by David A Webcomic and Hawk and Flo Adventures Part 1 Ice Cream Truck of Doom by HawkandFloAdventures. (February 2023)

A nice round of milestones from four creators to celebrate the accomplishments on The Duck:

The ...

I was supposed to write the last post on my ‘toxic’ character design series, but I've been deep cleaning the house all day and I'm exhausted. My brain refuses to think so that post will need to wait till next time. Instead, I'd like to talk about ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I wanted to try something different. I'd like to ask you all some questions. I have plenty more panel analysis articles, but I also want to mix things up.

I ...

A crew of bandmates called “The Sellouts”: Leo the lead vocals and ukulele; Ariel the bass; Gulliver the horn; Gene the drummer; and Kei Zheng on keyboards. Favorite fan of the band Skuncle, also known as Barry Jackson, loves attending shows and is an older than dirt multi-instrumentalist great at ...

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This is when the writer leads you to think something big has happened in the story, like a character dying or falling in love or winning a ...