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3	''[[http://www.whattheduck.net/ What The Duck]]'' is a comic created by Aaron Johnson. It is a daily comic strip printed in many syndicated newspapers, including the Toronto Star.
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5	The character most often in the spotlight is a white duck who makes his living as a professional photographer. Other characters include differently-coloured duck photographers, each with a different backstory and personality, as well as human clients whose faces are never shown.
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8	!! This comic provides example of:
9	* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: [[https://www.gocomics.com/wtduck/2009/01/11 One comic]] has a client who wants everyone in the photo to look 20% happier.
10	* AlasPoorYorick: "[[https://www.whattheduck.net/image/143046380876 WTD 1635]]" uses this classic stock pose and ShoutoutToShakespeare from ''Hamlet''. One panel has a duck actor dressed up in aShakespearean costume, holding a duck skull, quoting the famous "to be or not to be". The second panel makes a comparison with a duck photographer stading in the same pose, holding two versions of one photo, asking "black & white or color". That is indeed the question.
11	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: While a duck attempts to find the right camera setting, it goes from "Moving Water mode" to "Pregnant Woman mode", and finally "Pregnant Woman In Moving Water mode".
12	* EjectionSeat: The duck uses one [[https://www.gocomics.com/wtduck/2009/01/11 here]] to eject an overly demanding client.
13	* TheFaceless: Various human clients' faces are never shown. Usually their faces are hidden with speech bubbles or only their legs are shown in the frame.
14	* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: [[https://www.gocomics.com/wtduck/2009/01/07 This strip]] features the duck saying "I'm a photographer, not a magician."
15	* MediumAwareness: [[https://www.gocomics.com/wtduck/2009/01/10 Another strip]] has one duck saying he "spaced out after panel one."
16	* RussianReversal: "[[https://www.whattheduck.net/image/143928386812 WTD 1646]]" makes use of the transpositional pun. The professional photographer explains it all: "I didn't choose photography". -- "Photography chose me." ("After getting rich said [[SymbolSwearing #@€%]] you.")
17	* SymbolSwearing: "[[https://www.whattheduck.net/image/143928386812 WTD 1646]]" uses random symbols instead of a swear word. "After getting rich said [[SymbolSwearing #@€%]] you."
18	* YourHeadAsplode: In "[[https://www.whattheduck.net/image/143150608139 WTD 1637]]", the photographer's head turns red with anger and then explodes because their friend keeps pestering them that they "should take a pic of that" again and again and again.

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