While writing Topps "other" TV adapation, The X-Files, provided an outlet for darker, heavier thoughts, the Duckman comic, based on the USA TV animated series created by Everett Peck and produced by Klasky Csupo, was a terrific release of anxious energy, a bold license to spoof anything and everything in sight, to take no prisoners, offend all that is offendable. 

When asked how he prepared to write Duckman, Petrucha would explain that all that was needed was a heavy dose of caffeine to induce the duck-like tension in his own psyche. 

Like the incredibly under-appreciated animated series, the comic never quite took off.  After a three issue mini-series and a four issue monthly book, the comic series was cancelled.  An issue-long satire of Star Trek, Bablyon 5, et. al., was sadly never released.  As a final note, while working with licensors on other properties was sometimes problematic, Petrucha's experience with the creators and handlers of Duckman was always terrific.