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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 24, 2015 22:01:36 GMT -5
So I got my March DCBS box early... including Uncle Scrooge!
They list a 'legacy' number of 405... I assume the old series ended at 404? If that's true, that's kinda cool. Great format.. it's got a big page count (double sized, I think)... one serious, long story, a one page gag strip, and a less serious shorter one.
Unfortunately, it's just not that good. The main feature was much more like the Duck Tales cartoon than Barks or Rosa..not bad, exactly, but not good, either. There was a butler (but not the one from Duck Tales)... there was also Donald, not Launchpad, but it felt like Launchpad somehow. They did get Donald's car right, but the Beagle Boys are generic, and not the actual Beagles. There's a few fun site gags, but overall it's pretty average.
The 2nd story is alot better, and has a ton of Don Rosa puns in it, a treasure hunt, and a cool bad guy. No Donald or Huey, Duey and Louie, though. Scrooge was also more competent and more crudgemeonly (as he should be), than the Duck Tales version of the first story.
Overall, I'll keep buying it, but a bit disappointed so far.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 24, 2015 22:08:58 GMT -5
This is on my pull, as are all the new Disney titles. IDW has promised to adapt more of the contemporary European Disney classics, and that has me excited. If nothing more, Andrea Castellan on Mickey Mouse will rock my world. been waiting a LONG time for more of those.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 6:08:55 GMT -5
I'd like to check it out. I love Ducktales. Also excited for translations of the more renown European stuff.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 25, 2015 9:02:14 GMT -5
They seem to be really committed to it, so it shouldn't be too hard to get them... they're adding Donald Duck next month, Mickey the month after, then a 'Disney Comics and Stories'... they're all pretty aggressively releasing the trades...for Scrooge, the month after issue 4 comes out, a trade of the 1st four is due.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 25, 2015 17:55:16 GMT -5
I still think it's weird that they just aren't putting these out through Marvel, though I guess it could be more profitable to licence them out.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 25, 2015 18:24:37 GMT -5
I thought so too... they've chosen to do series based on rides at Disney instead for the Marvel-Disney link. Maybe it's just easier, and Disney doesn't think there's much money to be made?
No sign on any of the actual Disney characters in comics at Disney World... they did have a bunch of Avengers stuff (no Hickman, of course, just the movie stuff and little kid-ized versions) but they did have the actual Star Wars comics, as well as the new minis (Seekers of the Weird, Figment, and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad)
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 25, 2015 20:43:50 GMT -5
I knew about seekers of the weird, which was good, and recently saw big thunder mountain but this is the first I've heard of Figment and I love that ride so I'm going to need to check that out.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 26, 2015 6:37:29 GMT -5
I still think it's weird that they just aren't putting these out through Marvel, though I guess it could be more profitable to licence them out. I'm guessing Marvel ultimately felt that it didn't want them, or didn't feel it could do them justice. After all, Disney yanked the license from Boom! pretty much immediately after acquiring Marvel, only to have the properties sit and languish for a year after. They must have been discussing something with Marvel in all that time, only to ultimately give the license to IDW. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Apr 26, 2015 11:59:25 GMT -5
I still think it's weird that they just aren't putting these out through Marvel, though I guess it could be more profitable to licence them out. I'm guessing Marvel ultimately felt that it didn't want them, or didn't feel it could do them justice. After all, Disney yanked the license from Boom! pretty much immediately after acquiring Marvel, only to have the properties sit and languish for a year after. They must have been discussing something with Marvel in all that time, only to ultimately give the license to IDW. I would think "we don't want them" wouldn't be an option but perhaps Disney isn't as draconian as we are led to believe. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 26, 2015 16:17:03 GMT -5
I knew about seekers of the weird, which was good, and recently saw big thunder mountain but this is the first I've heard of Figment and I love that ride so I'm going to need to check that out. I think Figment is out in trade.. I skipped that one, but I enjoyed Seekers of the Weird, and I'm sure I'll like Big Thunder Mountain... it's hard to screw up Westerns  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 29, 2015 20:18:20 GMT -5
So, Donald Duck #1... the lead is a first of a two parter that introduces Donald's OTHER Uncle... crusading Newspaper man Gideon McDuck.. apparently he was a regular over in Europe, but never made it here... very good first 1/2 with a cliffhanger ending. I LOL'ed when Gideon called his reporters Lois, Clark, Jimmy and Jonah. There's a one page gag strip, then a less serious one where Donald tries to win 'Duckburg's funniest videos' to win a vacation for him and Daisy and hilarity ensues... not as strong as the first one, but decent... I do like Donald's grumpy neighbor (who I vaguely recalls in one of the Don Rosa trades I have). Strangely, one of the nephews mention Launchpad by name (he's not actually shown, though)... is there any Duck-history of him being in anything but the cartoon? Seems REALLY odd for him to be in a Donald Duck comic, since he's essentially Donald's substitute. In other news, there's a fun semi-autobiographical back up in Elfquest, with Wendy Pini drawing herself chatting with Cutter and Skywise about her legacy, and she makes a nice reference to Barks.. how 'some are so good they can make Ducks their legacy' |
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Post by shaxper on May 30, 2015 7:19:13 GMT -5
Finally read Uncle Scrooge #1 this morning, and I was similarly unimpressed. I'd been looking forward to reading Scarpa in English for years now, and this just wasn't a great introduction. Granted, he didn't write that first thoroughly average story which offered little more than a lot of nods to old Barks stories, but the second story didn't wow me either. The humor felt...well...lost in translation. Whether that was the fault of the translating of the words themselves, or whether its a cultural thing -- styles of humor are very cultural -- I just didn't find this funny and didn't find Scarpa's supporting characters as endearing as I'd hoped to. Maybe they grown on you with time.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2015 15:58:36 GMT -5
Read Uncle Scrooge #2 today. The lead story was tiresome, but I enjoyed Frank Jonker and Paul Hoogma's "Meteor Rights" quite a bit. It was funny and interesting all at once, even if heavily borrowing from an old Ducktales episode (or did the episode borrow from this story?).
Still not convinced I'm in love with the stories IDW is reprinting, but I plan to give it more time to win me over. I kind of wish they'd stick to one creative team and give us a chance to adjust to them, though. This scattered approach feels like a step backward to Gemstone.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2015 20:28:16 GMT -5
Donald Duck #1
Very disappointed. I found Scarpa's "Shellfish Motives" interesting, but turning it into a two parter was a lousy stunt. The rest of the issue was outright bad. Heck, even the appearance of Feathry in the final story (a European character I really like from the few translated stories I've read) fell short.
IDW has such a library of past excellence to pull from. Why does it feel like they're feeding us filler?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 1, 2015 20:52:03 GMT -5
Is it possible they're presenting things chronologically? I agree that if they're selecting things, that should have been able to do better.
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