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This is the long-promised sneak preview of my Dead Duck origin story, titled "Dead Duck Rising." The title probably came to me after seeing "Hannibal Rising," but I can't swear to it.

In this story I introduce Dead Duck's boss, J.P. Yorick, aka The Grim Reaper of less formally, Death. However, as there will likely be other stories that come out before this one featuring J.P., this won't be considered his first appearance in the grand sequence of the entire storyline.

Just a little back story here: J.P. is the head honcho of R.I.P. Inc. (located in the heart of Rigormortitropolis, City of the Dead), the big business that handles, well, death. J.P. runs the whole operation for the head office and sends his minions out into the fields to collect souls of the deceased and bring them back to be processed to their respective destinations.

And before I get a slew of questions from Muppet fans, yes, J.P. Yorick draws SOME inspiration from Jim Henson's old Sam and Friends character, Yorick. It's just enough to be a homage and not a rip-off, in my view. His first name, J.P., is borrowed from, well, myself. My full name is Jay Patrick Fosgitt, and my mom always intended people to call me J.P., but nobody ever picked up on that, so I've always been just Jay. So that's why I slapped that moniker on Yorick.

So when's this story going to be featured in an actual store-bought comic? The damn if I know. I haven't the money to self publish these days, but I have other options available to me if I choose to go that route. But rest assured that when the comic does come out in whatever form and at whatever time, you'll all be the first to know, and you'll be able to read this story to it's conclusion and know the truth of Dead Duck's origin. I promise not to pull a job like Marvel Comics and wait thirty years to release a character's origin, ala Wolverine (and then STILL monkey around with it after the fact).

Description
This is the long-promised sneak preview of my Dead Duck origin story, titled "Dead Duck Rising." The title probably came to me after seeing "Hannibal Rising," but I can't swear to it.

In this story I introduce Dead Duck's boss, J.P. Yorick, aka The Grim Reaper of less formally, Death. However, as there will likely be other stories that come out before this one featuring J.P., this won't be considered his first appearance in the grand sequence of the entire storyline.

Just a little back story here: J.P. is the head honcho of R.I.P. Inc. (located in the heart of Rigormortitropolis, City of the Dead), the big business that handles, well, death. J.P. runs the whole operation for the head office and sends his minions out into the fields to collect souls of the deceased and bring them back to be processed to their respective destinations.

And before I get a slew of questions from Muppet fans, yes, J.P. Yorick draws SOME inspiration from Jim Henson's old Sam and Friends character, Yorick. It's just enough to be a homage and not a rip-off, in my view. His first name, J.P., is borrowed from, well, myself. My full name is Jay Patrick Fosgitt, and my mom always intended people to call me J.P., but nobody ever picked up on that, so I've always been just Jay. So that's why I slapped that moniker on Yorick.

So when's this story going to be featured in an actual store-bought comic? The damn if I know. I haven't the money to self publish these days, but I have other options available to me if I choose to go that route. But rest assured that when the comic does come out in whatever form and at whatever time, you'll all be the first to know, and you'll be able to read this story to it's conclusion and know the truth of Dead Duck's origin. I promise not to pull a job like Marvel Comics and wait thirty years to release a character's origin, ala Wolverine (and then STILL monkey around with it after the fact).