Can you believe we've been going THIS long and we're STILL around? It still surprises me. Things have tried to kill us but nothing's worked yet. We predate all the current social medial. We saw MySpace come and go, we saw Facebook rise from nothing, we saw ...

21 years Drunk Duck has been around. Finally old enough to drink in the USA!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 20, 2023The Challenge of Part Three
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2023
And a One and a Two and a–
The third and possibly final volume of the Guardians of the Galaxy films is coming out later this year. Or next year. Or whatever.
I liked the first two a lot, and in an interview snippet, James Gunn mentioned how the third ...
Meet the Found Family
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2023
Last year (har har har obligatory New Year's Joke done) I'd started talking about Found Family, one of my favorite tropes in pretty much any narrative work, from movies to novels to comics and webcomics. Found family is when a bunch of characters, usually unrelated and mismatched, end ...
Panel By Panel: ‘Lite Bites’ and Abstraction at Scale
hpkomic at 12:58AM, Jan. 13, 2023
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week we're talking about the comic Lite Bites. Specifically, a story called “After; Fire Sale.” b]Lite Bites is an anthology series edited by Genejoke, and “Fire Sale” was written by ...
The Cure for Jealousy
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2023
Hey, you!
I've rarely been jealous of anyone. Certainly moreso when I was younger. Other people would sometimes (well, often) seem to have more going on in some area of life. There were plenty of folks who I'd look at and imagine having their intelligence. Or their confidence ...
Nostalgic inspiration
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2023
I’ve been taking a break from drawing for a few months now, particularly as 2022 was coming to an end and I was really feeling the strain. I fell out of the habit of drawing however I am feeling the itch to go back and resume it. Despite the ...
Four Endings
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 29, 2022
As we approach the end of another year, I had a few ideas about topics related to endings.
If you've read my articles for awhile, you may remember discussions about wants and needs - the plot objective that is more ‘physical’ is the want, and the emotional or thematic pursuit ...
Chapter Milestones for Blessed Days and SUCCUBUS REACHES THE 100th PAGE!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 26, 2022Your politics vs. Your characters' politics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2022
Okay, this is a semi-rant and train of thought post, because I've had a couple whiskey and I'm Having Thoughts About Things. You have been warned.
There was one thing that always bothered me in villains that monologue in movies (I also see it in how social media ...