Somethings that are part of the landscape can disappear overnight. Spring still arrives on time and the grass and bugs don't care. The fountains turned off to save water. The lights in the vending machine turned off to save power. And the memories of the dreams of the future ...

It never really occurred to me how many of our heroes are orphans.

Superman was the last survivor of a planet that perished. He was adopted by loving Earth parents, but he's one of the iconic orphans in fiction.

His counterpart Batman, of course, lost his parents at an ...

Zed is a really simple superhero, no capes, spandex, boots, or any fancy gear, he's just a normal young guy in comfortable, practical clothes. He fights crime, helps people, socialises with his cool friends, all the while he's on a never-ending quest to satiate his titanic coffee addiction ...

Photo: "The True Face: 267”. Drawn by Marcorossi. (April 2023)

Hear ye, hear ye! The final page of The True Face by Marcorossi went Live on The Duck on Sunday, May 21, 2023.

Here is a message from the creator of The True Face:

Marcorossi writes:

Hi!

I just finished ...

I am the mucky-footed bullfrog that leapt out of the well of dreams
A place to be killed in what I leave behind
You are beautiful and you are growing up. but I am getting sick and I am getting old.
Am I your master or am I your slave ...

This character can be insufferably annoying.

No, this character is insufferably annoying, but it's up to you whether that's to the other characters or the audience. When written correctly, the prattler can be comedy gold or a swift ticket to the most delicious kind of schadenfreude: watching the ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week we are checking in with the scavenger hunt launch in the last post, where I asked you to find specific examples of a panel in your work, and we have some ...

We talk a lot about Franchises here because those have been the big, widely known movies/stories in the culture in recent years.

But it's not all about Franchises - one thing that a standalone story can do, and occasionally does, is have an ending that changes the world forever ...

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Art: Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano

We're talking about WAR here! Trying to leave out politics, though that's really hard with war because ...

Photo: “Beware of the Glob 13”. Hawk and Flo Adventures Part One: Ice Cream Truck of Doom. Created by HawkandFloAdventures. (May 2023).

Two weekends ago, HawkandFloAdventures wrote in to kindly ask, “I'm nearing 600 pages If it's alright may I please have a milestone announcement in 2 weeks ...