Let me clarify something that may not have been picked up on previously: the repeated panels I used to make the gag DuckTales #4 preview are not only enlarged & repeated, AND poorly drawn/edited, AND out of sync with Rockerduck's exclamation to Cinnamon...



...but Rockerduck is NOT addressing Mr. Billups in this panel either. That dog-nosed character you see with the Fonzie 'do is his Butler, Jeeves! Mr. Billups (as he is called in this continuity) is the curator of the Duckburg Museum. You know, the white bearded gent from Carl Barks' "The Golden Helmet"? So there's another flaw to this steaming pile of a comic page: two terribly drawn panels with lousy color enlarged and repeated and the character's dialogue is directed to the wrong individual TWICE.


But the damage already began in kaboom!'s DuckTales #1. Observe these panels from page 18 as Webby and Scrooge have just cast off for Rippan Taro:




OK - Launchpad's coming too. He's clearly present in panel 1 and visible through the porthole window in panel 2. Probably a good idea to have some muscle & comic relief on such a voyage. But wait a minute - when they have some bad weather and a high-seas adventure, L.P.'s nowhere to be found? By page 22 when they reach the island, guess who flies in?




So Launchpad wasn't supposed to be on the boat at all. Oopsies, that's a pretty big thing to overlook, all you hard-working kaboom! "editors." But it goes to show you the returns on this book have been diminishing since before issue #1 even ended. You can reference this in your copy of kaboom!'s DuckTales #1. I swear to Barks I've only scanned the images in, and did not manipulate the art.

Life IS like a hurricane and it tore through your wallets and hopes, leaving some bad feelings behind. But that's cool, 'cuz we can still order that $9.99 variant DuckTales #1 Cover C, right? I'd really like to see the BOOM! hype machine try and argue any of this. But they're probably too busy drafting this week's e-mail blast to their entire address book to "make sure you pre-order our titles from your local comics shop and put off that pesky trade-waiting!"

KABOOM, bitches!!!

DUCKFAIL! Woo hoo!

You'd think they'd try a wee bit harder on their flagship kids' title. Just sayin'.

Kneon wrote:

DUCKFAIL! Woo hoo!

Now THAT'S funny!

Fernando Ventura wrote:

WOW!!! I have to buy this right now!!! And I tought my test was terrible!

Dude, that test looks great... the staging and layout worked, I understood everything that was happening without any dialouge, and the colors were brilliant!

The Disney Afternoon Revolution will NOT be Televised!

Hee. I move for (unofficially) calling this series DUCKFAIL to avoid confusion with the Marvel or Gemstone books.

Laugh or cry, man.... laugh or cry.

Kneon wrote:

More fans catch on that this train done derailed:
http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/thre … ics.48016/

*If* another publisher would come along and be able to reprint Boom's DUCKTALES material, I wonder if the story could possibly be salvaged with a little editing finesse and reworked art?

Or is this thing all bathwater, no baby?

Referring to the forum thread you linked to; it really irks me that people keep going on about how Marvel will never ever publish Disney comics like Darkwing, DuckTales, or the rest of the Disney Afternoon crew. Eveeeeeeeer.

Ohwait, what's this: http://negaverse.net/index.php?pid=24

But seriously. I've noticed a lot of people like to paint Disney as this big evil heartless corporation that took away the title from this innocent small-name company that only wanted to promote the good nostalgia. There are a lot of folks within Disney who are apparently huge fans of the Disney Afternoon titles and would love to see them thrive. It'll be tough, but I think that as long as we have people who are interested in pushing the titles and seeing them continue on, there's still a chance that Darkwing Duck (and maybe DuckTales and Rescue Rangers) will find a new home somewhere within Disney and Marvel.

Malarity wrote:

Kneon wrote:

More fans catch on that this train done derailed:
http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/thre … ics.48016/

*If* another publisher would come along and be able to reprint Boom's DUCKTALES material, I wonder if the story could possibly be salvaged with a little editing finesse and reworked art?

Or is this thing all bathwater, no baby?

Referring to the forum thread you linked to; it really irks me that people keep going on about how Marvel will never ever publish Disney comics like Darkwing, DuckTales, or the rest of the Disney Afternoon crew. Eveeeeeeeer.

Ohwait, what's this: http://negaverse.net/index.php?pid=24

But seriously. I've noticed a lot of people like to paint Disney as this big evil heartless corporation that took away the title from this innocent small-name company that only wanted to promote the good nostalgia. There are a lot of folks within Disney who are apparently huge fans of the Disney Afternoon titles and would love to see them thrive. It'll be tough, but I think that as long as we have people who are interested in pushing the titles and seeing them continue on, there's still a chance that Darkwing Duck (and maybe DuckTales and Rescue Rangers) will find a new home somewhere within Disney and Marvel.

Well said! I'm also annoyed by the same thing (true, I used to bash Disney for not giving the possibility for Boom to do TaleSpin, but not anymore now that I know the whole story)

Why do people keep thinking "Marvel will not care because they already have their own properties"? On the contrary, owning lucrative "kids" licences is a great opportunity for them, because they know the future of the comics lies in the new generation of readers. And which Disney books have sold the best recently? Not the classics, but the Disney Afternoon books.
I'd say Marvel would be really foolish not to at least TRY.

Here's the official kaboom! cover (taken directly from the AWESOME original artwork!) for the newly re-christened DUCKFAIL issue #3! It's the limited edition "Scrooge's Amazing Transparent Neck" cover, just like on the actual comics page!

KABOOM, bitches!!!

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 … wCover.jpg

Wow!!! I think I'll definitely spend 9.99$ into this. Got to get them all, after all!

DuckburgUSA wrote:

Here's the official kaboom! cover (taken directly from the AWESOME original artwork!) for the newly re-christened DUCKFAIL issue #3! It's the limited edition "Scrooge's Amazing Transparent Neck" cover, just like on the actual comics page!

KABOOM, bitches!!!

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 … wCover.jpg

Now THAT'S avatar worthy.

Hmmm, looks like Boom!/kaboom! needs to update the animated DuckTales banner ad at the masthead of their site.

I think the GIF progression should go something like this:



Boy, I don't know about you guys, but I can't WAIT until kaboom!'s DuckTales #4! Wonder if they're just going to skip that costly artwork and utilize balloon-captioned frame-grabs from fuzzy VHS tapes of the show? That's the kind of editing we expect from the comics publisher that "put kids comics back on the map!"

KABOOM, bitches!!!

I prefer DUCKFLAIL to DUCKFAIL, myself, but that's just me.  That's TWO spit takes I've done this morning (the other being when I saw the mock panels for the proposed DT #4). 

How much worse can it get, anyway??

Snap!

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/08/04/ … ducktales/

(How long until Boom! has that pulled?)

DuckburgUSA wrote:

kimba_1962 wrote:

How much worse can it get, anyway??

I dunno, but we can't get negative on a Friday! How about getting ready for the weekend with a morning sing-along? Here’s some lyrics, so we can all sing together:

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa4 … Lyrics.jpg

That's a JPEG you can print out and share as well! Happy singing!

BEST. POST. EVER.

Wow, this is turning into quite the media clusterduck, isn't it?

(Ba-dum-ching!)

It's not just us. Over on the Bleeding Cool forums, someone posted:
I'd be interested to hear Boom's response to this.

To which another poster replied:
LOL! You really should write comedy. Boom! doesn't answer anything. The only thing they post are "We have exciting news for you. Please wait!". They didn't even have the courage to tell their readers that yes, all their Disney stuff was going away and just ignored readers asking why. Their dealing with fans make Marvel's fratboy party look like people for are always telling the truth and are straight and upfront with their readers.

Link: http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/show … post220289