Photo: “Fille Née Sans Mèr (translation ‘Girl Born without Mother’)”. Francis Picabia. 1917.
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” -Herbert George Wells
In one month’s time, I will be attending a lecture detailing the development of ...
Does Mechanization Turn Men into Robots or Robots into Men?
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2022FEATURED COMIC --> Hawk and Flo Adventures Part 1 Ice Cream Truck of Doom
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Aug. 24, 2022
Hawk and Flo are two adventurous legendary heroes who take the safety of others seriously while taking their own safety less seriously. Their team size doubles when denim-clad Lacey Almer and the last space wizard join the group. Hawk and Flo begin an undertaking of hungry, hungry hamburgers; rooms filled ...
Poetry Time 5: As if to say goodbye
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, July 24, 2022
This sunday's poem is contributed by DD member TheDeeMan. This is "As if to say goodbye”
by Darryl Hughes aka TheDeeMan
As angels find their prayer in song. As birds to wing do fly.
An orange sun touched an ocean blue. It's words a lullaby.
I sat upon ...
Panel by Panel: Android Blues and the Full Frame Two-Shot
hpkomic at 5:50AM, July 1, 2022
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 be checking out a panel from the webcomic Android Blues by the user ...
Wonder
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 19, 2022
Gonna take another pause from the fantastic bestiary on this Sunday’s article and instead talk about wonder in fiction. First off, what is wonder? If you put the word wonder into google translate it is described as ”a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beutiful, remarkable or ...
Inspiration/Plagiarism
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, May 1, 2022
I’m taking a pause from the Fantastic Bestiary this week as I haven’t been my best healthwise lately. Also lately I’ve been distracted by something that has left me with this question poppin’ into my mind, And so this sunday I'm posting this question that perhaps ...
Fantastic Bestiary 5: Witches
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, April 24, 2022
As Easter has come by to melt away the final vestiges of a long, cold winter (at least up in these parts where I live) it feels like a good time to bring up the mythology of witches. Witches have a central role in the Easter that we celebrate here ...
A Character Equation
Banes at 12:00AM, March 24, 2022
To be honest, I didn't really want to talk about The Book of Boba Fett or Star Wars again in this post.
But nothing else is coming to mind at the moment, and this show has been on my mind, so here we are again!
Many have complained about ...
QUACKCAST 570 - Hair!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 15, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Time to chat about character hairstyles. Tantz did a newspost about them a few weeks ago and I spun the topic off into a fashion subject for ...
The World of the Dead
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 12, 2022
Not every story involves the underworld, or however the world of the dead is called in the setting. However, it still exists.
Every time the characters consider their own mortality in the story, the world of the dead looms in the backdrop. The way the characters think about death, life ...