August ends today, and we pick things right back up with another character deep dive, this time of the fascinating Nicodemus Blacroft from the comic Devil’s Blood by the amazing Dragonsong12!


Devil’s Blood is the story of a city in crisis and the people that are trying to ...

I'm reading a book that Brent Spiner wrote. It's a comedic noir mystery. In the book, Brent is a version of himself, during the heyday of Star Trek the Next Generation, playing Data. He finds himself stalked by an obsessed fan. It's called “Fan Fiction”.

It got ...

Artistic License


Light spoilers for Act One of Deadpool and Wolverine.


Near the beginning of Deadpool and Wolverine, Deadpool travels the multiverse to find an appropriate
version of Wolverine to bring back to his own reality.
Among others, we see a classic cover from the X-Men comics, the tan-and-brown variation ...

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*(pic from comic Key Of Dreams, a comic featured in the DD Anthology: https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2024/jul/20/quackcast-697-the-dd-anthology-comic/)

We're chatting about our fave Greek myths! Greek myths are foundational to a lot ...

There was big Internet news the other day when Marvel revealed that Robert Downey Jr. was returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe…and that he'd be playing Doctor Doom (?)

The thrill of seeing RDJ on stage sent the audience into thunderous applause of course…we all love this guy ...

Photo: “2024 Finalists”. Drunk Duck Awards 2024 by Niccea. (July 2024)

Final votes are in and have been tabulated.

Niccea writes:

“Thank you for your patience over the past week with the delay. The ballots are closed the votes were actually counted up on time. As usual, please kindly let ...

Today’s Character Deep Dive is on an antagonist!

We’re looking at Raidon Yamamura from Used Books by the amazingly proliferate Vickie Boutwell!

Used Books is a crime-noir thriller involving the story of Kaida, an ex-assassin from a highly dangerous network of organized crime and the different people surrounding ...

What would you do if you had psychokinetic powers? They can be a very dangerous thing if used wrongly… Three nerdy teens living in a very vicious part of town suffer horrible bullying. But they have special abilities their bullies don't know anything about. Those bullies are about to ...

Comics are one of the most effective forms of art.
The most important part of all art is communication. It's often overlooked in favour of “meaning” but without the ability to effectively communicate that meaning, the meaning becomes meaningless. Concepts and manifestos are utterly inadequate because they usually become ...

The Anti Continuity

Last time I brought up the ‘standalone episode series’ and the ‘serialized episodes’ approach.

Used Books mentioned Anthologies, which is (kind of) the anti-continuity approach. I love anthologies, and have contributed to a few over the years.

Nothing but respect to The Twilight Zone, one of the ...