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What happens when the hero dies? Especially when it's early on in the story… do things fall apart or does someone else take over? Our topic is about a story style where you establish that a ...

Photo: “You Are Invited to the Drunk Duck Awards 2024”. Drunk Duck Awards 2024 by Niccea. (April 2024)

Niccea writes:

“Welcome to the 2024 Drunk Duck Awards, a Drunk Duck satire of the Oscars featuring the creators and comics of The Duck Webcomics. I am your Master of Ceremonies, Niccea ...

Inhale, the calm of a time now broken
Exhale, the balm of a sinister grave
Inhale, the song of a star awakened
Exhale, the gong of an ominous day
Inhale, the fang of a blood still aching
Exhale, the bang of a beautiful way


NaaN (Now, always and Never)

Today’s Character Deep Dive is on the intriguing Molly Lusc from the comic Molly Lusc by Andreas Helixfinger!

Molly Lusc is a straight up noir comic complete with an origin story… sort of… of the main character and primary detective Molly Lusc. It has a lot of the noir ...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I had mentioned a couple of updates ago that I wanted to mix things up a bit and figured now was a good opportunity for that. So I am putting out a call ...

There's nothing more shocking than when the hero dies …at the beginning.

Don't worry, Banes isn't dead! I'm just standing in for him this week, he will return! This is only about fictional main characters that didn't get the memo they should reserve their death ...

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This week it's a short cast because my computer broke and we wasted time trying to fix it!
We're chatting about teachers in fiction, a topic inspired by Banes' newspost on the subject. There have ...

Photo: “Niccea Has Invited You to Join Drunk Duck Awards” Discord. (April 2024)

A Flock of Dreams Cover Vote

The second Drunkduck anthology is nearing completion, while there's still work to be done it's definitely very close.


With that in mind it's time for you to vote ...

There's few moments more dramatic than when the hero gets hurt. The more serious the injury (or illness or poisoning or other type of affliction) the higher the drama.

And from that drama (the hurt) comes the period of treatment, convalescence, and recovery (the comfort). This is a plot ...

teacher, teacher, can you teach me –

I was revisiting a classic movie, one of the ones on this list, in the past week or so, and thinking of the archetypal teacher/student dynamic in fiction.

So, in line with my Top Five Tales of Bands from last year, here's ...