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The series exploits the violent misadventures of Duke "Destroyer" Duck, an ordinary resident of a world where animals talk and behave like humans. While lamenting with his best and only friend (whose real name is never revealed and is just called "The Little Guy", though it is slightly implied he is Howard the Duck) that his girlfriend left him for a "wimp", Duke witnesseses Little Guy vanish in front of his eyes all of sudden. A few years later, Little Guy appears in Duke's house bleeding to death, much to the horror and anger from his friend. As he dies, Little Guy reveals to Duke that he had been teleported to another dimension, where he was forced to sign in a contract with an entertainment company called Gordcorp in order to survive in this new world, only to be exploited, humiliated and consequently killed when he tried to fight back for his rights. Vowing revenge, Duke creates a dimensional-travelling machine and goes to the world where Godcorp resides, starting a bloody and brutal war against the company and a group of assassins under their command. During his way, Duke also meets a few allies that include the violent-tempered Beryl Mudge and superhuman lawyer Henry Holmes.

* [[The Dragon]]: The secretary of Godcorp's major executives Woblina Strangelegs, who is physically stronger and tougher than Godcorp's assassins.

* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Black Syph. See [[Our Zombies Are Different]] below.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The cover of issue 07 was drawn by [[Frank Miller]].

* [[Kick Chick]]: Woblina's main style of fighting.

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate]]: Duke is not exactly the type of duck that you would like to have on your bad side.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: At the end of issue 5 Gerber and Kirby admitted that Cogburn was a parody of the comic book writer [[John Byrne]], who, at the time this comic was being published, described himself as a company man and had no problems in being a cog to Marvel.

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: The zombies that Duke, Beryl and Pablo come across in issues 06-07 were affected by Black Syph, a variant of syphilis modified by Agent Orange during Vietnam War. The side-effects make that the infected die slowly while their [[Body Horror|bodies degenerate to a highly horrifying level]].

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Godcorp's assassins, particularly Medea and Uranus P. Chicago. And the Cogburns.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]

** Later, Duke suspects that {{spoiler|the same thing happened with the Little Guy, and believes he is still alive in somewhere.}}

* [[Take That]]