Halloween is just around the corner, so what better thing to do than talk about monsters?

Specifically, what has motivated humanity to create them, talk about them, fear them and love them across time and across culture.

Monsters are generally linked with our sense of fear. Fear is an adaptive ...

Now that's a little TOO scary!

Horror is perfect for metaphor and allegory. In fact, a horror story is often allegorical by default, what with its bizarre landscapes and freaky beasties.

Here are some categories of horror and some thoughts on what they symbolize:

Reality Bites


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Welcome to October proper, and the beginning of our spooky/scary month of articles.

There's a brand of scary movies where the ‘monster’ or whatever is not just one machete-wielding angry frog manchild. Or ravenous shark or alien or some other kind of monster or killer ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. As we established last time, this week we'll be going over the community feedback on a webcomic page provided by a volunteer. I'll also share my thoughts as well.

Our first ...

The Outbreak is a chaotic, frenetic, frenzy of non-stop action! The fight scenes are constant in this world of zombie apocalypse. The hardcore Rock, crafty Doc, and crazed Hobart are more than a match for the hordes of zombies and mad Asshats, roaming the wastelands. Their life is a constant ...

Today we’re tackling Stringy from the action-packed comic Stringy and Mopy by MegaRdaniels!

As with every character deep dive, I seek to do as thorough an analysis as possible with what I’m given for the character requested. (By the way you can sign up here if you want ...

Today's Creator Interview is all about the fantastic Spooky Kitsune! They are a recent addition to the DD family and a prolific one, with two webcomics hosted here already!

But you don't want me to tell you about it all! Let's hear it from Spooky Kitsune themselves ...

Hey everyone.

How is 2024 doing for you guys so far? The beginning of 2024 has been quite a venture for me healthwise. Starting with flu sickness and then having several run-ins with the hospital regarding my increased kidney values resulting in a kidney biopsy this week followed by a ...

Photo: “Hawk! Urgh.” From HawkandFloAdventures: Ice Cream Truck of Doom, The Beginning of the End Page 13 (with cameo of Zombie Leona from Kawaii Daigakusei). Original story and art by HawkandFloAdventures. (November 2023)

Did you know that my original character, Leona, has made a cameo in the current story arc ...

Horror…and the baddies and creepies and long-legged beasties of horror…come in many flavours.
These divisions might be incomplete or somewhat meaningless in a way, but hey, I have to approach it somehow…


Reality Bites: Human Creeps, Scary Animals and Nature
-Serial Killers, Jason, Michael Myers, The Strangers, And ...