Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. As we established last time, this week we'll be going over the community feedback on a webcomic page provided by a volunteer. I'll also share my thoughts as well.

As for ...

A tried and true story trope is the “forced together”.

I think it was the director Sidney Lumet who said that he really enjoyed the tension that came from
this kind of situation. Taking two people who would never choose to be together are stuck in
a bad situation. It ...

Riley Zinc and Flint Dartson smuggle themselves to the crazy sea plateau island of Mercia in an airship and immediately find themselves in the middle of a dastardly mystery! A senator is killed right in front of Riley by having a vending machine squish him flat. By a series of ...

Photo: “Necroblivion Omnibus 1 Book Cover”. Necroblivion by Paneltastic. May 2024.



For immediately release.

(Written by Paneltastic)



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After nearly three years of work, I'm happy to announce the release of the first Necroblivion Omnibus!



Featuring over 400 pages and 36 chapters, this is a great way to hop into ...

One story structure, that ozoneocean and I talked about many years ago on the Quackcast, was the Lone Protagonist as drifter.

In Pulp Fiction, Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) says talks about leaving the life of crime to walk the Earth. “Like Kane in Kung Fu. Help people, get in adventures ...

I first heard the phrase “an itch to scratch” from the creators/writers of Better Call Saul. When they were expanding and deepening the “Saul” character from Breaking Bad, they needed to change a comedic side character into a fully rounded lead character. And Vince Giligan said that an early ...

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We recorded the Quackcast on the 4th of May, which of course means that it was “May the fourth”, the Star Wars celebration date! So we decided to talk about Star Wars, but instead of our usual ...

So it's that time of year where even if you don't want to think of Star Wars, you kinda do. At least if you go online.

So let's wish each other May the 4th and all that jazz, and talk some Star Wars.

There's the Original ...

Damaged Heroes


A well written, standard Protagonist will generally have some flaws, starting out as an underdog of some kind, with lessons to learn and improvements to make over the course of the story.

Granted, some heroes are, well, just heroes, who are pretty much who they need to be ...

Lonely Planets is a chronological, monthly slice-of-life comic centered around a mother, a father, and their son. Mini vignettes of each month’s most memorable adventure is told in the span of a series of 2x2 comic strips. It is a snapshot of married life overlapping with middle-life and deals ...