Enjoy Stuff: What the Duck?!

Howard the Duck has been waddling around the Marvel Universe for more than 50 years, but 40 years ago he made his big-screen debut in one of the strangest movies ever to come out of Hollywood. We're getting our feathers ruffled and taking a look back at the movie that proved sometimes you just have to wing it!

Was Howard the Duck really as bad as everyone said? We're looking at the history, the weirdness, the practical effects, the critics, and the legacy of this infamous 80s cult classic. 

 

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Jay is enjoying his time exploring the East Coast, including a visit to Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain, hiking Champlain Mountain, and biking the Carriage Road loop. It's been a pretty fantastic adventure filled with beautiful scenery and plenty of opportunities to get out and explore. Shua is enjoying Reacher Season 4, with Alan Ritchson back as Jack Reacher. He's once again bringing the character's particular brand of justice to people who are being horrible, and Shua appreciates Reacher's dedication to doing the right thing and helping people who need it.

MCU Location Scout

MCULocationScout.com is Jay's ongoing project documenting and exploring real-world filming locations used throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe and related Marvel television productions. Through detailed research, photos, and travel guides, fans can discover where their favorite Marvel moments were filmed. This time Jay has been adding locations from Season 1 of Luke Cage, including Genghis Connie's Chinese Restaurant, a Harlem location that appears in the series. You can explore the locations and see exactly where the MCU came to life at MCULocationScout.com. And don’t forget to check out all of Jay’s Sci-Fi Saturdays on RetroZap. You can also tune in to SHIELD: Case Files where Jay and Shua breakdown Marvel properties and Superhero Suite for news on comics, movies, TV and more.  

Enjoy Ducks!

We're celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movie that brought Marvel's cigar-chomping, wisecracking waterfowl to the big screen. We look back at Howard's comic-book origins, George Lucas' involvement, the enormous production, the practical effects, and the movie's spectacular journey from box-office bomb to cult classic.

 

Then it's time for "What the Duck?", where we try to figure out which critics wrote some of the movie's most memorable reviews. We'll also debate whether Howard was really as bad as his reputation suggests, look at how the character could work today, and explore his eventual return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 

Can you tell a real 1980s movie from something we completely made up? We're putting our knowledge of bizarre 80s cinema to the test with plots involving killer mall robots, time-traveling cyborgs, zombies, tiny demons, alternate dimensions, and murderous machines. Some of these movies are completely ridiculous. The problem is... they're real!

Can you Enjoy Howard the Duck? What are some of the fun qualities of the movie? Let us know! First person that emails me with the subject line, “Put it on my bill?” will get a special mention on the show.  Let us know. Come talk to us in the Discord channel or send us an email to [e-mail]