Ok yes. Plot armor in general is considered a mistake. With good reason. Enough plot armor and there are no stakes left in your plot, and the audience isn't worried your plot-armored characters may not make it. And if there's no suspense, there's no engagement or the ...

Photo: “Duck and Quail: Drunk Duck and Insecure Quail”. Written by Genejoke and Tantz_Aerine. Drawn by Davidxolukoga. (June 2023)


2023 DRUNK DUCK AWARDS BALLOT

Niccea writes:

“The day is finally here!!! The 2023 Awards ballot is open.

Also…I need Presenters and Judges!!! Please consider volunteering. Judges have join our ...

The 15th Annual Drunk Duck Awards are taking off and the ride is only going to get more tubular from here—Come one, come all! Every Duck is invited to participate. This year’s awards theme “At the Therapist” was brainstormed by Tantz Aerine, “in which a door that leads ...

Eliana is a professional customer care representative by day, but as soon as night falls, the dark blonde wig comes off and the true pink-haired alter ego, “BANF”, is ready to create with a spray can in hand. “XOXO”, a famous street artist with red and blue split hair and ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week we are checking in with the scavenger hunt launch in the last post, where I asked you to find specific examples of a panel in your work, and we have some ...

Photo: “Beware of the Glob 13”. Hawk and Flo Adventures Part One: Ice Cream Truck of Doom. Created by HawkandFloAdventures. (May 2023).

Two weekends ago, HawkandFloAdventures wrote in to kindly ask, “I'm nearing 600 pages If it's alright may I please have a milestone announcement in 2 weeks ...

In rewatching some 1990's movies, I saw quite a few of these Protagonists show up - they're these disaffected types, usually quite intelligent or at least verbose, who are wrapped up in their emotions and sort of spinning their wheels in life as they analyze their problems and face ...

One of the most frequent ways to make characters stand out in fiction or myth is to give them a staggering, amazingly powerful ability. Something that mere talent doesn't give you. Something miraculous, larger than the largest life, unique and insurmountable:

Like a dude that can part an entire ...

So for us Orthodox Christians it's Good Friday today and it'll be Resurrection Day (Good Saturday) by the time you're reading this. In the neighborhood where I live, a new (boisterous and with many members) family has moved in, who brought a live rooster a few days ...

The other day I saw a clip of Frank Frazetta explaining his artistic process and what made his style unique, I found it fascinating. It made me remember just how awesome he was and how little regard he has in the wider art world. There were a lot of great ...