Duke disappeared from public view in 2006 after a reported "incident involving a woodchipper and a rival zine editor" (likely apocryphal). Attempts to locate him have failed. His final message on the now-defunct HardcoreHoneys.com was a scanned napkin drawing of Cherry Bombshell flipping off the reader, captioned: "I’m not dead. Just out of smokes."
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In 2022, boutique publisher released Duke’s Hardcore Honeys: The Complete Grime , a 700-page black-and-white omnibus with a cover that smells faintly of diesel fuel. It sold out three print runs. Duke disappeared from public view in 2006 after
Here is the current market breakdown as of 2025: Just out of smokes
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The "Honeys" were a rotating cast of blue-collar anti-heroines: (an ex-wrestler turned repo agent), Muffy the Doom-Slayer (a spoiled heiress who discovers a talent for occult violence), and the fan-favorite Loretta "Lungbutter" —a chain-smoking trucker with a heart of fool’s gold and a fist like a cinder block.