There's a weird hermit living at the edge of a street. Rumours fly about him and what he does all day, whether he's a criminal or a psychopath. People don't go near him or his property and any interaction is minimal. Until a young vagrant kid stumbles ...

Found Family
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 17, 2022Panel By Panel: ‘Withdrawn’ and Establishing Character in a Frame
hpkomic at 3:45PM, Dec. 16, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I am taking a break from submitted comics this time to spotlight a panel from a recent comic I stumbled upon. This week we're talking about the comic Withdrawn, created by Duck ...
Super Teams are the Baum
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 15, 2022
When I was a youngster…and as I got older, too, I was always a big fan of the Super-Team. The X-Men, X-Factor, Alpha Flight, The Avengers…some of these were my favorite comics. And of course, the Super Friends was an old school cartoon that we loved as littl ...
What you really, really want
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2022
This is gonna be yet another rambling kind of post and a long one at that–so be warned. In the recent month I’ve been doing some soul searching that ties into this personal Christmas shopping spree of sorts that I’ve had recently. To be more specific, I ...
Your 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 ...
Three Questions
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 8, 2022
It's been said by…someone that a character WANTS something. It's one of the ingredients that makes a compelling character. It's also something that makes a character relatable, even one who's very different from the reader/audience.
Most of us aren't centuries-old robots, but we ...
Quackcast 612 - Comfort food for the brain
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 6, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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There are times when you need to give your brain a bit of a break, that's when comfort shows come in handy! Movies and TV shows ...
A Short Expedition into Sweet Exposition
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2022
I know we've talked about exposition before, but a couple examples popped into my head recently…even though the examples are not recent.
When I was a youngster I loved the Hulk character. Today I remembered a specific issue of that comic, from way back, where the Hulk was ...
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2022
So this line has become famous lately since Elon Musk has been using it to reinstate banned Twitter accounts in the latest episode of the Birdsite Drama.
I'm not going to get into any opinion piece on what I think of this development but if you haven't joined ...
Don't I know You?
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2022
Doppelgangers were thought to be an omen of death or bad fortune. If you see a being that looks like you, doom awaits!
The name has evolved to mean a lookalike, usually supernatural or unexplained. There are many stories that feature Doppelgangers, whether ghostly, clones, mirrors come-to-life, robot duplicates, or ...