The Drunk Duck Awards - 2025 Forum Discussion

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Niccea writes:

“First of all I am so sorry for getting started so late. I have made several attempts to get started, but found many different distractions.

“The Awards celebrate the comics, authors, and users that ...

Now, the good Professor always follows up his “Good News, Everyone” with decidedly bad news. But for this week, that can wait. And I was going to spend the first part of this newspost looking at some of the more depressing stories about books from around the world, but end ...

It's Resurrection Saturday today! What better occasion then than this to talk about the resurrection trope?

Usually, cancelling out a character's death is not a good thing to do in a story. It undermines the weight of the stakes involved and/or the sacrifice or seriousness of the ...

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When love turns to hate… It's a common trope in fiction: partners split up and their once loving relationship turns to one of bitter acrimony! We see hate turning to love frequently too, that ...

Photo: “011 Happily Ever After?”. Shonen Punx created by Teh Andeh. (April 2025)

Teh Andeh writes:



“This year the first webcomic i ever did Shonen Punk!(2004-2019) turned 21! it’s finally drinking age! lol so of course that means it’s time for a reboot! LOLOL



I’ll be ...

Absolute Boyfriend: Volume 1

So, you’ve got this amazing story idea bouncing around in your head—yay, go you! But now comes the big question: how do you actually start the thing? You want that first page to blow your readers away, right? Let’s talk about one of ...

Ax, single father of two young children, spends his days navigating a space ship to sort through space debris. Janus and Callista, along with their babysitter, Julia, fear Ax’s line of work especially after the loss of their mother. One day, Ax receives a weak S.O.S. signal ...

There was a recent article in the Guardian about how playing Dungeons and Dragons had helped siblings bond and cope with the death of their father. It got me thinking about the role that role-playing has played (now there's a phrase) in my own life.

For me role-playing began ...

Boone looks exceptionally well-dressed in the white collared shirt and black tie lovingly gifted to him by his grandmother. Excavator by profession, Boone spends his days digging for buried treasure or unearthing alien artifacts. Grandma, Boonford’s favorite person to share his findings, has a mantra borrowed from Grandpa that ...

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I love those characters who bitch and moan and want to do things differently, although they don't usually take up the leadership role themselves, they just THINK they should be leader instead, but they ...