Recently I have been revisiting a sitcom that I used to love but, funnily enough, never finished. The last season of the show dropped during a hectic period of my life and by the time I had, well time, to watch it, I had lost the plot. But thanks to ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!

The new comic page template is up and running on the test site here: https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/
However, I've been working to make sure it will have a seamless transition to incorporating the customisations on people's individual comic templates so I had to ...

The other day I saw a clip of Frank Frazetta explaining his artistic process and what made his style unique, I found it fascinating. It made me remember just how awesome he was and how little regard he has in the wider art world. There were a lot of great ...

Photo: “MEDV” or “I’m Evolving So I Can Walk on Land and Eat a Mediterranean Diet”. TWO PENNY VAUDVILLE. Drawn by CRYSTALPEN. (February 2023)

CRYSTALPEN, of Two Penny Vaudville—a comic described as, “GAG CARTOONS: MY LITTLE THEATER OF LAUGHS,” by its creator—wrote on the “Meet, Greet, Show ...

Tough love is so cool, eh? It's going to magic the “whining” right out of you, won't it? You just need to stick out through the harshness, and then when you reap the benefits, you'll realize your tough loving benefactor had the right idea. You'll be ...

Die Hard was a surprise smash hit back in the day, and became famous in some circles as a template for screenwriters to pitch their stories (“It's Die Hard on a bus”…or a boat, or a jet, or in a house).

It's also talked about as a ...

So last time, in Part 1 of this discussion of …sunnier villains or antagonists, we had left off talking about how toxic positivity is all about the toxic person's comfort. And that this need to impose a certain behavior, dogma, and/or approach to reality in their environment leads ...

Shmuck Bait is the name, I think coined by one of the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul writers, where a cliffhanger or shocking ending leads the audience to believe something major has changed. For example, the appearance that a major character has died. But when the next episode/issue/book ...

Photo: “Origin #72: “Maybe I Can Change Your Mind”. (February 2023)

Davidxolukoga would like to announce the current crossover happening on the comic Origin that started at the beginning of this week:

“Don't miss the ORIGIN/THRUD crossover. Read the latest issue of ORIGIN to jump right in.”

Origin ...

Usually, antagonists or villains are emo and gloomy, angry and aggressive, suave and sly, or any combination of that. They are not generally associated with positive traits in their personality, or at least positively-associated traits.

And that's a shame, because real life sure does have a lot of variety ...