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Ed. Psychologist & author that makes webcomics. History & Politics. Research & fact fanatic. Verdant (political dark fantasy): theduckwebcomics.com/Verdant/ Without Moonlight (WWII war drama, vol1 complete!): withoutmoonlightcomic.com

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · Nov 16

Reintroducing myself for new followers!

I'm an educational #psychologist who is also an artist! I examine education through Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory.

I also deeply care about #politics & #history which I explore through my #webcomics, Without Moonlight & Verdant! More on the ALT!

Cover of the webcomic Without Moonlight. A curly haired, one-eyed boy with scars on his face is trying to evade searchlights. The nazi flag is flying at the Acropolis, rather than the Greek one.

WM is a war drama set in WW2 Nazi-occupied Greece. Fotis and his friends struggle to survive the famine of Athens when they suddenly are thrust into protecting a microfilm that could make or break that most important stand the fledgling Greek Resistance is about to make.

Cover for the webcomic Verdant. A red-haired knight is floating in the waters of a swamp forest, unconscious. Vines are creeping towards him from what looks to be a submerged witch.

Verdant is a dark fantasy and political drama/adventure. Etan, a kome (knight) of the Despotate, genuinely believes that witches are the enemy, heretics that are insolent to the gods and threaten nature and the world with annihilation. When he realizes that is not the case, he suddenly has to protect himself and others from those forces that are the real threat.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 22h

This week's #Quackcast is all about movie forensics!

The DD admins talk about usual TV and movie #tropes on forensic science and interrogation vs real life!

Listen to us talk here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/oc...

#webcomics #writing

A big magnifying glass over a fingerprint on a black background is today's image for Quackcast 761, the Forensic-cast!

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 21h

It's Day 14 of #DDHorrorMonth and today's ...lighthearted #horror #webcomic is

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by @mkwizard.bsky.social!

A refreshing twist on the classic story, where Jekyll and Hyde are at odds... or maybe not so much?

Read it here: shorturl.at/EHEHD

#comics

Cover for Act 1 of the webcomic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, art by Mks_Monsters! As it begins to snow, a tall and thin young man with a long nose and glasses, dressed in turn of the century winter clothes, is holding a checkered umbrella and glancing with a smile at a parrot on his shoulder.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 1d

It's Day 13 of #DDHorrorMonth and today's #horror #webcomic is

Nosebleed by @skudsink.bsky.social!

Two teens gain psychic powers and use them on their bullies. Now they must deal with the consequences of revenge!

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/Nose_Bleed_

#halloween #comics

Cover for the webcomic Nosebleed, art by Skudsink! Image shows a screaming person whose head is exploding in a mess of flesh, green brains, and black blood.

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 2d

How humanity allows this to happen again and again is testament to how damned we are.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 2d

It's Day 12 of #DDHorrorMonth and today's #horror #webcomic is

Nocturne 21 by @grape-ape.bsky.social!

A doctor and his daughter find a dying teen boy on the street, in the rain. They save his life and then must discover who he is.

Read it here: shorturl.at/YFOJn

#halloween #comics

Cover for the webcomic Nocturne 21. A teenage boy is sitting crosslegged on the floor of a science lab, tubes and wires coming out of his half exposed brain. A teenage girl is pouring drip coffee in a funnel going into his skull, while reading an instruction manual, while an older man is sitting at a lab computer with a huge screen blinking with a danger sign. Art by Grape Ape!

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 3d

It was from the Duck! There was a period when we had an onslaught of 'tell it like it is' edgelords trying to the the House MD of comic making. XD They quickly passed, they weren't the types DD is a natural habitat for.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 3d

It's Day 11 of #DDHorrorMonth and today's #horror is a #western!

The Return of Jake Sunrise by Josh Curlee & Dean Page!

Follow the adventures of a bounty hunter in a truly wild west!

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Return_of_Jake_Sunrise/

#halloween #webcomics #comics

Cover image for The Return of Jake Sunrise! Image shows a man turning into a werewolf in some western style frontier town, as cowboy types are trying to attack him.

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 3d

When I was at around chapter 2 of Without Moonlight, I received an onslaught of negative (and malicious) reviews that basically told me I made ugly comics. I almost stopped making them. I didn't. I'm glad I didn't. You can't please everyone with your work. And that's ok. It's because it's art.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 4d

This week's #ContinuityFalls by our awesome admin @banes500.bsky.social continues with Truck's foray into the forest and ...maybe Clementine?

Read it all here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/oc...

#webcomics #funny #comedy #comics

A 4-panel vertical comic strip showing Truck in the forest at twilight, encountering Clementine, maybe. Dialogue reads:

Panel 1

TRUCK: Clementine! How’d yew git way out har?

Panel 2

CLEMENTINE: We tracked yuh thru the tunnels unner th’ town!

TRUCK: Whut tunnels’re them?

CLEMENTINE: Some ol’ timers showed us! Thet’s how important yew is to us!

Panel 3:

CLEMENTINE: S’awright now, Truck!

Panel 4: VOICE (off panel): Truck?

TRUCK: (Clementine suddenly scratches Truck's cheek) OW!!

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 4d

This year's Best Overall Story #Comic goes to

Danielle Dark by Jay Bradley!

Read it here:www.theduckwebcomics.com/Danielle_Dark/

Congrats!

Presentation by Bravo1102! Nominees listed therein!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #webcomics

A pair of plastic straws, one wearing a red bowtie, present the awards. Dialogue reads:

Straw: Best Overall Story Comic. Big, big award.
Bow straw: Last year we made this huge award--
Straw: But it was just too hard to move around and it's still in a warehouse somewhere.
Straw: So, this year it'll be a normal sized award presented in a huge production number!
Bow straw: Nope.
Straw: You mean we ran overbudget and everything was cut?
Bow Straw: Yup.
Straw: So what are we doing?
Bow straw: Just read the nominees.
Straw: That's it?
Bow straw: Yeah, just read them:

Danielle Dark
Imago, Nebraska
Kawaii Kissu
Psychoborg

Straw: This is huge! Like some creators no matter how many other nominations they get will ever get one in this category!
Bow Straw: And it kind gets rubbed in since they're always doing the presentation for this award?
Straw: Well, now you mention it--
Bow straw: Just announce the winner!

And the award goes to...

DANIELLE DARK!

Banner for the webcomic Danielle Dark, showing a snazzy head shot of a raven hared lady in a bob, with stunning eyes, red lips, and a grin with fangs.

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 4d

both alike in dignity, in the fair bedroom as we lay our scene.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 4d

This year's Best #Comic #Strip Award goes to

Space Spaghetti by Cbacolo!

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/space_spaghetti_/

Congrats!

Presentation by @banes500.bsky.social! Nominees listed therein!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #webcomics

A vertical comic showing a man and a french lady, Suzette, in a car. Dialogue reads:

Man: Suzette! We've been driving all day! Are you going to tell me where we're going?
Suzette: It iz not yet ze time for that, mon petit!
Man: Stop!
Suzette: Waargh! (they break to a stop before the edge of a cliff)

Suzette: Hmm it appears we can go no furzher down zis chosen course. You zee, I've been tasked with zis uh.. task. I vas to announce ze winnair of ze Best Comics Trip Award. I felt that taking our own comics trip would be a fitting gimmique for ze presentatio'.

Man: Su... it's best overall comic strip.
Suzette: Streep? Ah! I 'ave made ze dad joke, non?
Man: ..at best.
Suzette: I could do ze strip tease... but noone wants to see zat!

Ze award for best overall comic strip goes to

SPACE SPAGHETTI!

Congratulations!

Suzette: Mon petite... did you bring any gasoline by chance?

Banner for the webcomic Space Spaghetti!

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 4d

This year's Best Completed #Comic goes to

Cochlea and Eustachia by @hansrickheit.bsky.social!

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/COCHLEA_and_...

Congrats!

Presentation by @marcorossi76.bsky.social! Nominees listed therein!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #webcomics #comics

Full page comic presentation where Duck and Quail are at an Award acceptance party where the food is missing, along with two ladies. Dialogue reads:

Quail: We're here for the Best Completed Comic Acceptance party... but it seems someone already ate half of the food.
Duck: Hmmm... and here are Robin Sinclair from

Blessed Days

and Cochlea from

Cochlea and Eustachia...

You wouldn't happen to know who did this, miss Sinclair, would you?

Robin: Nooo... (cheeky look)
Duck: And would you, Cochlea dear? (she shakes her head)
Quail: But if neither Robin nor Cochlea ate the food, who did?
Duck: Once you take away all the impossible explanations, the only possible one, even if unlikely, is the truth. Therefore...
Quail: There must be someone else in this room! (Cochlea is stealing food and taking Quail's hat)
Duck: Alimentary, Quail, alimentary. And that waws Eustachia, Cochlea's twin sister, who came here disguised as her sister without anyone realizing (Eustachia drops food on a miffed Quail's head). But that is unimportant now, because the winner has been chosen, and the winner is...

COCHLEA AND EUSTACHIA!

The first page of the webcomic Cochlea and Eustachia, showing a room with bizarre objects. In the middle is a mounted animal that looks like an ant eater, but has a cage door at its side and a seam where its spine should be. From the seams, a hand emerges, and another animal pushes itself out, wearing glasses and a vest.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 5d

It's Day 10 of #DDHorrorMonth! Today's #horror is from

Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel by @johncelestri.bsky.social!

Enjoy the story of a ...thirsty man's encounter with bloodthirsty gangsters & their great booze in this short with a twist!

Read it here: shorturl.at/csC3n

#halloween #webcomics #comics

Banner for the webcomic Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel by John Celestri, art by him! Image shows a female-leaning naked angel with white wings that are red-tipped and long light red hair wielding a tendril of fire with their finger.

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Nobel Peace Prize day to all who celebrate! 🕊️

In a brilliant and well deserved move, an (1) antifa (2) Latina (3) woman, María Corina Machado, wins for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.

María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 5d

I think it's worse than this. I think they do tell him 'you did terribly' and couple that 'we'll cover for you and protect you if you do as we say' and thus rule as his puppet masters.

TerryBassGuitar🇨🇦 @terrybassguitar.bsky.social · 5d

They keep giving him tests that he easily fails but his people are too afraid to tell him so they just say "you did great"

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 5d

You know who takes a cognitive test? People whose family members suspect their loved one is suffering from dementia. If he kept getting “perfect” scores…they wouldn’t keep administering them. My take? He blew the first one he ever took. Now, they’re tracking the decline. I’d bet my hot coffee on it.

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 5d

Today is gonna be fun to watch

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 5d

This year's Best Atypical #Art Award goes to

Interstellar Battle Girls by Bravo1102!

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/Interstellar_Battle_Girls

Congrats!

Presentation by Genejoke! Nominees listed therein!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #webcomics

Cthulhu is presenting the Award on a stage with a green curtain behind him. Dialogue reads:

Good evening ducklings. I have come to present the award for Best Atypical Art. What the duck is Atypical Art you ask? Well it's art that is not typical. Simple. With that cleared up, let me remind you of the finalists for Atypical Art for 2025: Doll Revolution, Interstellar Battle Girls, The Railroad of the Wallachian Library, and finally The Artifact War. (he becomes a sprite)

The winner of the2025 Award for Best Atypical Art goes to... INTERSTELLAR BATTLE GIRLS (he becomes a detailed pixel art Cthulhu)

Cover for Interstellar Battle Girls, art by Bravo1102! The webcomic is a photo comic with figures and dolls posed on custom made sets. Image shows four woman in scifi style outfits and masks bursting in a room where gray aliens are sitting.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 5d

This year's Create Your Own awards go to

Interstellar Battle Girls by Bravo1102 for Best Assembled Cast

Read here: shorturl.at/hEnuB

And to Plymayer for Old Salt!

See here: shorturl.at/yxrhC

Congrats!

Presentation by @headypigeon4180.bsky.social!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #webcomics

A vertical webcomic continuing from previous presentations where the awards envelopes from the Awards (DAFTA) were mixed up with the supplies from a cooking show. Dialogue reads:

Meanwhile at the DAFTAs

Host: Oh dear, who put the carrier bag here?
Host 2: Err, what do we do?
Host 3: We go on as usual.
Host: Where are the envelopes? Are they in there?

Audience: Get on with it already! Who's won?
Host 3: there are no envelopes!
Host: How about we let the audience make their own awards?
Spectator 1: We should have an award for... Old Salt! The winner is Plymayer!
Spectator 2: We should have an award for ...Best Assembled Cast! The Winner is Interstellar Battle Girls!

Banner for Old Salt Award with Plymayer's name and the year 2025 on it.

Cover for Interstellar Battle Girls, art by Bravo1102! It's a photo comic with posed figurines in custom made sets. Image shows a bunch of scifi looking ladies with masks and melee weapons bursting in a room with aliens and other people sitting around.

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Tantz Aerine 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @tantzaerine.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a suit stands in front of a crowd and says anyway

Alt: a man in a suit stands in front of a crowd and says oh no... anyway

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 6d

Well didn’t take long for the most predictable thing that people have been saying Would happen if we all started uploading identity verifying documents to servers to happen to happen.

404 Media @404media.co · 6d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 6d

It's Day 9 of #DDHorrorMonth and today's #horror is

The Last Will and Testament of Edward Cavendish by @dpat57.bsky.social!

When you inherit a guy who made a lot of ...experiments, things won't always be smooth.

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/Last_Will/

#webcomics #halloween

A frame from the 3D comic The Last Will and Testament of Edward Cavendish, art by dpat57! A large sedan is puling up to the yard of a looming dark mansion with four turret corners. It's twilight and the occupants of the car are talking: "Well I hope he remembered you better than you remember him."

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 6d

This year's Most Dedicated Creator Award goes to

Gh45tly_5n0wm4n!

Congrats on being a tireless tank of #webcomic making!

See all their work here: shorturl.at/J8iGb

Presentation by Bravo1102! Nominees listed therein!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #comics

A lined notebook page with stick figures arguing. Art by Bravo1102! Dialogue reads:

Welcome to Most Dedicated Creator Award presented by two stick figures on notebook paper.

- This award is for the creator who is just a comic producing machine!
- Each has multiple comics and a huge page turnout!
- Like mind-blowing and high quality, this is not just stick figures on notebook paper!
- That's us, two characters without a comic who just show up at these awards every few years or so.
- And the nominees are: Dpat57, Genejoke, Gh4stly_Sn0wnm4n (how do you even pronounce that?), Inky Moondrop.
- And all these people have lives, too! They're dedicated with good work habits!
- Yeah, like not eating, ignoring important chores--
- THAT IS NOT FAIR!
- No, but I'm a stick figure drawn on notebook paper.

And the award goes to: GH4STLY_SN0WM4N!

Award banner for Most Dedicated Creator with the winner's name on it and the year 2025.

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Drunk Duck (The Duck) HORROR MONTH! @theduckwebcomics.bsky.social · 6d

This year's Most Deliciously Offensive Award goes to

Hentai Action Theater by Bedlam_Boy!

Read it here: www.theduckwebcomics.com/Hentai_Actio...

Congrats!

Presentation by Genejoke! Nominees listed therein!

#DDAwards #DrunkDuckAwards #webcomics #comics

A vertical 3D comic with Cthulthu presenting the award. Art by Genejoke! Dialogue reads:

Cthulhu: Good evening, it's time to work out, whodunnit. It's time to find out which sick freak made the most deliciously offensive webcomic on Drunk Duck. The two finalists are... Hentai Action Theater by Bedlam_Boy (shows a heavily pixelated frame from the comic) and Kawaii Kissu by Under The Black Hat (shows yet another heavily pixelated frame from that comics).

Ugh! This censorship stuff really ruins the fun.

Monster guy, pixelated everywhere but his head: Don't you like my pixels?

Cthulhu: Well they're a bit too pixelated.

Monster guy: Do you want to see what's under them?
(as he uncovers, everything gets even more heavily pixelated)

Cthulhu: Oh no, I'm gonna get censored. I better wrap this up fast (he is already somewhat pixelated, getting bigger pixels with every sentence)

The winner of the DrunkDuck Award for Most Deliciously Offensive Comic is... HENTAI ACTION THEATER!

Banner for the webcomic Hentai Action Theater showing two young woman dressed in skimpy barbarian style bikinis/loincloths. One is blonde with long hair and holding a huge cleaver over her shoulders and the other has short hair and is trying to disentangle her leg from a tentacle. Art by Bedlam_Boy!

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