Grimmy Gruesome’s alarm wakes him up at 6:66 AM each day. His micro-wardrobe has been filled with the same black, hooded cloak since the Dawn of Time. Grimmy is very serious about taking lives for his job and excels at reaching weekly death toll quotas. Grimmy’s days ...

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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 ...

Where destiny lies
Off to the horizon light and darkness ties
Genius has already invented our demise
Only angels and flames may defy the skies
Burn my dreams for that new sunrise
Where destiny lies


NaaN (Now, always and Never)

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 ...

Adrian is having a massive run of bad luck! He lost his family villa, all his money and almost everything he inherited… except a giant agricultural robot mechsuit. Maybe he can turn his life around? He had better hurry though, he doesn't have much time till he has to ...

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Tantz came up with this week's topic: Exposition! It's because she's well on her way into starting her latest comic, Verdant, and working out ways to introduce the story, the world, characters, culture, magic ...

Primordial coil rituals my blood
To be sanctified in un-zang nerve-ending to depart
Where you were, I return. Where you burned, I rekindle.
Primordial foil pictures my gods.
To be sacrificed in un-rang soul-mending to unchart
Primordial soil freeze me free


NaaN (Now, always and Never)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week I want to look at the work of one of the most recently prolific creators on the Duck. I wanted to look at the growth of creator HawkAndFlowAventures, by looking at ...

Here we are - Thursday again! I tells ya, the weeks and months just FLY by.

It was April Fool's Day the other day, and I was thinking about stories, and how sometimes books, TV shows, movies, or whatever will try and FOOL us. Like, the entire story is a ...