The city streets of Tombayly City are empty when a young man wakes up barefoot from a nap on a sidewalk before meeting his grandfather. Meanwhile, a stealth spacecraft comes into orbit of ringed-planet Imest. It is here we meet Kamilla, a twenty-three year old gadgeteer protected by a life-size ...

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How do you describe your work to sell it to people? Writing blurbs is a real skill! You generally have to avoid doing these four things: Underselling ...

This sunday's EPIC poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is “Beware the Necromancer”: Verse four, by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan

On a vacant black morn, was darkness stillborn, a poor and fatherless bastard.

To swirl in the mass, of hell's foul warpath, and evil redeemed for ...

Felicity Stone, once a teen wizard prodigy of amazing power and achievement is now an adult woman teaching her first day of wizard school. Lucky for us she doesn't have any lessons prepared to lecture her students, instead she chooses to tell them how she started out as a ...

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The Manchild can be a fun character or they can be pathetic. They're a staple of comedies because they're an adult that gets to act ...

Photo: X-Men Series II Trading Card Collection (1993)

An unopened, cellophane wrapped pack of trading cards is a sleeve of anticipation. The probability of finding a hologram or a rare character card is reason enough to get excited.

Around the time the Uncanny X-Men cartoon gained popularity in nineteen-ninety three ...

When designing a character's appearance, we want to come up with cool, original elements that make an impression and distinguish that character from all others. So it's tempting to give them a gazillion cool belts with buckles running up their legs and arms, chains hanging off them, high ...

Hello and welcome to Panel by Panel, an analysis of panels from comics right here on The Duck and exploring what they do, how they work, and what we can learn from them.

This week we will check out a panel from the webcomic Phantasos by user jslongstreet. This is ...

The manchild is a very comic trope in fiction over the years. It's the kind of person who is an adult physically, but have not accepted adult responsibilities in some parts of life…or maybe any part of life. They are irresponsible in relationships or work or life in ...

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The risks of online creative success
We live in a wonderful time where you're able to turn your creative passion into a job that can support ...