Writer: Justin Heggs Artist: Cam Hayden Black Panel Press, April 2026 Death Metal Duck, from Canadian duo Justin Heggs and Cam Hayden, took a long time to hatch. From https://www.geeknerdnet.com/blog/2026/4/13/2026-year-of-the-death-metal-duck-justin-hegg-cam-hayden A decade has gone by since Heggs first wrote the opening of the series, and he credits that time away to making now the perfect time to come back to the story and its characters for finishing the story… Heggs shares a story (from spring 2024) of his kids reading his earlier comics (Wolf Hands, with art by Nick Johnson) which lit the spark to get him back into writing comics again. For Hayden, revisiting the series after a decade’s worth of work under his belt with various co-creator, as well as creator-owned projects (which you can find on his Patreon), he completely redrew the original first issue, which is now woven into this graphic novel. He talks about the