When we hear about a broken heart, usually our collective minds to go romantic disappointments and devastation. Unrequited love, betrayed love, or even love separated by death or any other type of force majeure.
And that's absolutely one type of heartbreak that is and will remain legit. It's ...
A Broken Heart
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 12, 2024The Horror Protagonist
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 10, 2024
I was watching The Dead Zone again the other week, and thought that Johnny Smith might be the perfect horror Protagonist.
This movie, and the Stephen King book it's based on, might be a little bit under the radar; I'm not sure how well known it is in ...
The Many Faces of Fear
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Oct. 5, 2024
Hello there my fellow Quackernauts! As it’s the spooky season, what better time is there to explore one of my favourite genres, horror. Horror is many things, but at its core it’s intention is to challenge the human mind; to remind us that, despite all our attempts to ...
Panel by Panel: 'Killer Ape Theory' and Establishing Scale
hpkomic at 11:21AM, Oct. 4, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Moving away from the workshop format this week, and returning to the more solo-assessments of panels and comics. This week, we have a panel pulled from Marco Rossi's comic [i[Killer Ape ...
The Monstrous Horde and the More-Than-Just-Hors-d-oevres
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 3, 2024
what the flock?
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 ...
Time to Double Check!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 28, 2024
The Red Carpet submissions have not only closed but …*drumroll* …
The group shots are already ready! I'm ahead of my game for a change!
However as I was making the group shots I came across completely by chance (fortunately) of a CASUAL submission entry that had been sent to ...
Freddy Krueger's special day and the Anthology of Dreams
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2024
We're jumping ahead a bit, here: I meant to do horror/halloween related articles throughout October, starting next week - but I caught a little video that reminded me of a special anniversary happening this year!
Freddy Krueger and his first final girl Nancy down for a 40th Anniversary reunion ...
Panel By Panel: Workshop - 'Omegan Survivors' Part Two
hpkomic at 10:35AM, Sept. 20, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. We return to our workshop series this week. Last time we introduced this week's comic and asked for feedback for the workshop, allowing the community to weigh in and share some thoughts ...
The Series Bible
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 19, 2024
I was just reading one of the original Star Trek Series Bibles. It's actually called the “Writer's Guide” and was a, well, a guide for new writers who were interested in writing a Star Trek script. It's most interesting!
Being very interested in fiction and writing for ...