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I'm going to open up the awards for For Your Consideration pages now. The rules are simple: keep the page rated PG or so and use the theme in your page ...

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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 20.



Adam and Byron are two stylish young men living in 1980s London. They're making their way in the world, trying to look cool and succeeding mightily! Both have their typical looks that properly characterises them but they both also like to ...

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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 19.



Anesthesia and Wicked Woman are both characters from the webcomic Generation bad. They're not the main protagonists but I picked them because I think they look cool! Anesthesia is the heroic type, dressed in a really cool style. I love that ...

So it's fun to rant about tropes I hate but I actually prefer to gush about tropes I love.

And one of them is what I call “the bargain”: it's really a game of wits between a (usually lawful) villain and a hero (or protagonist/antagonist, take your ...

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I consider Drunk Duck (or the Duck Webcomics) to be the Heavy Metal of webcomic hosting sites, because like that excellent anthology comic publication we celebrate the ...

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Last week we did a thing of the persistent myths of fiction- fictional conventions that we all just accept, and are repeated over and over and even ...

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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 15.


Hel and Belladonna are our two webcomic fashionistas this week! Two gorgeous supernatural ladies with excellent taste in clothes, drawn with inestimable skill by our very own Damehelsing. I really don't know why these two haven't shown up in the ...

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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 12.


Axel De Veyra is the Master Mentalist, Zener. That's his hero name. He's very striking in his fantastic outfit and cape, showing off his hero muscles and great hair. All in all it's quite a traditional take on the ...

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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 11.


This week we have a charming bald dwarf from the world of Magical Misfits. Headmaster at the institute, studying the magical mythical race called humans that once walked the lands of Terr. Magical Misfits has been a mainstay at Drunk Duck for ...

Critics, professional or not, identified a trend in many of the…lesser regarded manga and anime series.
It's the “everyman hero”.

This school of thought is that to make a lead character who is identifiable to everyone in the readership or audience. So the lead will be unremarkable, and ...