The forest hides and very dangerous secret… a great black wall, behind which is said to lurk and ancient race of snake people. But maybe that's just a silly folk tale? That's what Shera and Johnathan think anyway, as they hike through the sun dappled shade from the ...

Greetings!

Well, we're past October once again, and past the spooky season. But I had another thought about
scary stuff - and stories filled with tension and fear is always in season!

One area that is always fun to explore is the paranoia about our the friends, neighbors, and strangers ...

Halloween is around the corner!

The swiftly-international-becoming Fright Season, where people dress up and surround themselves in scary imagery and settings. Everything is about the scare, the close brush with death or worse, the thrill of the blood running cold in our veins for seconds before laughing at each other ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.

Ever start clicking through the pages of a webcomic and find yourself suddenly stopping, struck by a panel? That is the essence of these write-ups, but it's also neat to realize that ...

Horror…and the baddies and creepies and long-legged beasties of horror…come in many flavours.
These divisions might be incomplete or somewhat meaningless in a way, but hey, I have to approach it somehow…


Reality Bites: Human Creeps, Scary Animals and Nature
-Serial Killers, Jason, Michael Myers, The Strangers, And ...

So I have another part about Religion, as well as a Deep Dive I'm hoping to have ready before Halloween in terms of my upcoming newsposts. And I have several art projects running. First off, to protect my buffer for Verdant. Second off, to make my contribution for the ...

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This Quackcast is a sequel to our Quackcast last week on alternative character growth, but instead of Star Wars this time we decided on Indiana Jones. It's a really interesting creative writing exercise, we think up ...

Last time I started talking about religion as a great umbrella term for a lot of facets of worldbuilding you can take into consideration when constructing the world of your story, be it webcomic, novel, series, or anything else.

This type of worldbuilding is especially prevalent in fantasy worlds, but ...

I've always loved Autumn - and we're in it now, in my part of the world. To be honest, it's just beginning to come in, so I'm anticipating the leaves turning into those beautiful oranges and yellows (and all the variations therin), before they begin piling up ...

One door closes and another one opens… if you're lucky. Lin Peckett Soooooo wants to become a fashion designer, she has the talent, the taste, and the skill, but it looks like she might not succeed. Unless she gets some help from a nice stranger. This is a short ...