HYPE!
Newsarama.com : BOOM! Studios Announces New DUCKTALES Ongoing Series
The Uncle Scrooge comic has pretty much been a Duck Tales comic since they’ve been running more of those type of stories than the usual Uncle Scrooge comic stories. However, like almost all of the Duck Tales comics of the past the stories have been terrible. All of them have horribly failed to capture either what the cartoon delivered or what Carl Barks was able to do.
Warren Spencer writing this comic gives me hope however. He’s a big Disney nerd, likes Duck Tales but enjoys the original Carl Barks stories that Duck Tales was based on more. He did a great job with Epic Mickey.
I do wish Ian Brill was writing this book too since he’s been knocking it out of the park with both Darkwing and Rescue Rangers, but Spencer’s a really interesting choice gotta say.
So wait the DT-like stories in the Uncle Scrooge comic weren’t that good?
I wouldn’t want Ian to be overworked with a 3rd book, but hey it’s all good =)
Yeah they suck IMHO. To be fair Duck Tales is difficult to translate. You have to know a lot about geography (Barks was an avid National Geographic reader), cultures, myths, legends, classin literature and be really funny. Otherwise its going to fall flat. You can only tell the Beagles trying to rob the Money Bin story so many times before you have to move on to something else.
It’s the same problem with Uncle Scrooge comics in general. If you read anything not from Barks or Rosa chances are it sucks.
Maybe if people did what Brill does, actually mine the series for stories. Who wouldn’t want to see characters like Feathers Galore, Cinammon Teal or Featherika Von Strangeduck again? :lovin: Hell Brill’s already mining Duck Tales for Darkwing Duck so why can’t the DT comic mine the DT cartoon? Mind boggling.
Say Sano mind posting the good Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge books that can be bought (or for that matter, recommend other good Disney comic book collections/TPBs?)?
Is there one that collects old short strips featuring these Disney characters? Like the one strip where Donald rides a tank to get through traffic.
I was about to say, the new stories have been shit compared to the old stuff.
My favorite story is still the one where they travel the world for this legendary book of the ages in hidden libraries and the like and they keep coming back to Donald in Duckburg being a security guard. Every time he talks to them he’s telling them about some action flick he’s watching where someone was chasing someone else, someone flipped over, and someone burst into the flames. It was smirk worthy the first two times, until the third time when he’s talking about an old western and the chase being done with horses, and one of them still flipping and bursting into flames. I will never forget that fucking bit, ever.
The problem is that most of Donald Duck and Scrooge comics by Barks cost WAAAAY too much money. No joke. His Omnibus series goes for about $100 dollars a volume for 10 volumes! That’s $1,000!!! When Gladstone had the rights they put out a lot of books around the $100 - $300 range too. Oh I’m not making this stuff up…
There’s 2 TPBs for the real Duck Tales, all of the stories the cartoon lifted from Barks’ comics. Those are cheap. I think they still leave out the Glittering Goldie story - Back To The Klondike - because that story is considered a classic that goes for a lot of $$$ most of the time but I’m not too sure if it’s included or not.
There’s going to be a collection by Barks coming out that’s affordable by Fantagraphics later this year. They are shooting for putting out 2 volumes a year and I think they are in the 20/30 range. I’d hold out if I were you.
Don Rosa’s stuff is a lot cheaper. You can get the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (eisner winner) and there’s also a second book, a Companion collects side stories from it too - you can jump back and forth between both books to read them in order but it doesn’t matter. Pretty sure Boom just re-released both if you can’t find the older editions.
Gottfredson’s strips (Mickey), I’m not too sure if there’s a collection for them, well I’ve seen EXPENSIVE ones that Gladstone put out (which were not collections per se, the books would cover one of his one to three month long stories IIRC). I can’t see Disney and Fantagraphics not doing a collection for those too down the road.
Al Taliaferro’s Donald Duck comic strip (he invented Huey, Dewie, Louie, Grandma Duck and Gus Goose) has never been collected in a TPB. His strips just appeared in random Donald Duck comics by Gladstone when they had the license (many on the back of their comics too) which is how a lot of people of my generation were able to read those strips. Gladstone wanted to do a collection but Disney nixed it because there was an entire month or so making fun of Native Americans. Strange because there’s more than enough material they can use without that one month, but maybe Disney doesn’t want to explain their omission by just not releasing a TPB.
One thing I always disliked about Duck Tales was the lack of Donald. Not mentioning that for any specific reason.
I love the old Carl Barks stories. My favorite was the one where Donald wore the knightly costume to the costume party, was made fun of, then used that costume to save people from escaped lions.
I also like that Barks’ Uncle Scrooge stories were like Duck Tales but included Donald.
I remember that one! The lions couldn’t eat him because he wore a real suit of armor!
There was a great reprint of a Don Rosa story in Uncle Scrooge’s comic this week. It even had a cameo from characters from an old Carl Barks story, who also showed up in Duck Tales heh. 
Wow what a convenient thread! I went to the comic shop with a buddy of mine last week and the first thing that caught my eye was all the Scrooge/Donald/Disney comics. I bought Scrooge 400 and Disney 716. When I got home I TOTALLY forgot that I had bought a few Scrooge issues a while back, along with a Ducktales tpb (the Marv Wolfman one) so I am quite loaded up on ducks lately.
I hated the Marv Wolfman Duck Tales story. I like Wolfman some of the time, but not his take on Duck Tales. But hey if you read it and happen to enjoy it then let us know. Always good to hear different opinions.
Will do. I am not terribly familiar with his work, I have heard his name before though. I saw it at the store and thought “Well, I loved Ducktales, I bet the comic is just as good”, and it has been sitting on my shelf for almost a year. 
Marve Wolfman is the man who made Teen Titans popular.
He didn’t do much for Duck Tales though. Wolfman even admitted he used the Duck Tales umbrella to tell an old school Uncle Scrooge comics style story and not really a Duck Tales story. Which would be fine if he succeeded, but he failed miserably on both counts.
barks ducktales is godlike
Issue #1 of Duck Tales comes out next week! :woot:
Picked up the Donald Duck Archive by Don Rosa that came out this week. Really great stuff. Half of the stories I’ve read before but not all of them. Still it’s good to have a lot of these stories in one TPB.
In the back they show a few pages from the next Archive volume, one for Walt Disney comics. They showed a few of Al Taliaferro’s Donald Duck comic strips and one of the Mickey Mouse ones. Nice! I’ve been wanting a collection of Donald’s strips for years now.
First issue is off to a good start. Not as funny as either of the current Darkwing or Rescue Rangers comics, but still an enjoyable read and a million times better than all previous attempts at Duck Tales comics.
Loved how they snuck in a classic Disney character and if you’re a fan of Disney Afternoon shows the way said character was used made perfect sense. 
Is it me or did the art look less clean in the later pages? Otherwise a really good issue IMO
This is my first time [spoiler=]seeing Rockerduck, was he in the cartoon? I don’t recall ever seeing him, then again i don’t think I’ve watched all eps.
Agent X is prob. that Farquad character[/spoiler]
Here’s hoping Gizmo Duck shows up eventually
In response to your spoiler -
[spoiler=] Rockerduck never appeared in the Duck Tales cartoon but he’s from Uncle Scrooge comics, created by Carl Barks in the '60s. He’s based on Rockefeller. His full name is John D. Rockerduck, just like John D. Rockefeller.[/spoiler]