IDW Disney Comics November 2016 Solicitations

[squeakyboots]

Mickey Mouse #14

(W) Andrea Castellan (A/CA) Andrea Castellan
"Fantametal Phantoms": Mickey's classic title is back from hiatus-with fan favorite Andrea "Casty" Castellan and Mickey's rowdy explorer pal Eurasia Toft on board! Mickey's out to find Atlantis or die trying... and yaarrr! There be pirates, pitfalls, creepy Count Zoox, and the hideous Horde of the Violet Hare!
• Beloved modern Mickey master Andrea "Casty" Castellan is back-and Eurasia Toft is with him!
• Continues this beloved series' legacy numbering at #323!
• Check out the Marco Gervasio swords and sorcery variant cover, in celebration of DONALD QUEST #1!
In Shops: Nov 09, 2016
SRP: $3.99




Uncle Scrooge #20

(W) Francesco Artibani, Joe Torcivia (A) Corrado Mastantuono (CA) Andrea Freccero
"The King of Tides!" Our pirate adventures continue this month when Ludwig Von Drake returns home from a sea hunt even crazier than usual! Scrooge and Donald must help Ludwig retrace his undersea steps-through a giant squid's maw into the secret grotto of deadly buccaneers!
• Francesco Artibani ("Scrooge's Last Adventure") returns to Uncle Scrooge with an outrageous Ludwig Von Drake caper!
• Continues this beloved series' legacy numbering at #424!
• Check out the Fabrizio Petrossi swords and sorcery variant cover, in celebration of DONALD QUEST #1!
In Shops: Nov 02, 2016
SRP: $3.99



Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #735

(W) David Gerstein, Byron Erickson (A) Cesar Ferioli (CA) Daan Jippes
"You Vindaloo, You Lose a Few": It's Duck Vs. Food when Chef Donald has chopped the world's hottest curry in his cutthroat kitchen-but does Uncle Scrooge have no reservations about success? Plus a trippin' new Mickey and Eega Beeva time travel tale!
• Star artist Cèsar Ferioli returns to Walt Disney's Comics and Stories with a double dose of Donald and Mickey mayhem!
• Check out the Massimo Fecchi swords and sorcery variant cover, in celebration of DONALD QUEST #1!
In Shops: Nov 23, 2016
SRP: $3.99





Donald Quest #1

(W) Stefano Ambrosio, Pat McGreal (A/CA) Andrea Freccero
"Hammer of Magic!" A wild new Disney miniseries starts here! In the steampunk warrior world of Feudarnia, only the Magnus Malleus can save humanity from marauding Meteorbeasts! It's an epic weapon for an epic hero... so why is it up to Donald Duck to grab it before Magica De Spell, the Beagle Boys, and the Phantom Blot get there first?
In Shops: Nov 30, 2016
SRP: $3.99

Donald Quest seems to be replacing the normal Donald Duck series for five issues.



Mickey Mouse: A Mysterious Melody HC

(W) Bernard Cosey (A/CA) Bernard Cosey
What was life like for Mickey before 1928... before Hollywood stardom struck? In this riveting, phantasmagorical "what-if" tale, we follow the Mouse from his humble origins-as Oswald Rabbit's screenwriter!-through a tangled web of trains, rocket ships, and stolen Shakespeare scripts! Will a haunting tune bring Mickey and Minnie together for the first time? Will Goofy find success as a... ferryboat driver? Or will big boss Mr. Casey and relentless Pegleg Pete strike again? Award-winning Swiss cartoonist Bernard Cosey (Lost in the Alps) brings us an amazing Mouse adventure with a thoughtful, emotive twist.
• Celebrated French writer/artist Bernard Cosey presents a riveting, fascinating Mickey adventure in the Floyd Gottfredson tradition!
• Jump on for the second in IDW's new series of European Mickey graphic novels-featuring cinematic storytelling and modern Disney art like you've never seen!
In Shops: Dec 14, 2016
SRP: $14.99




Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Complete Sunday Comics Vol. 2 HC

(W) Bob Karp (A/CA) Al Taliaferro
From deeper in the Disney Vaults, our second volume collects three more complete years of Sunday fun-every color page from January 1943 through December 1945. By the end of the book, WWII is (literally) history and Donald, Daisy, and those incorrigible nephews find more than their share of joy-and mayhem-in Duckberg. Disney scholar Alberto Becattini provides an introduction that puts the strips in historical perspective, and tells us about George Waiss, who joined the creative team in 1943, taking on the inking chores over Al Taliaferro's pencils.
In Shops: Nov 30, 2016
SRP: $49.99




Donald Duck Timeless Tales Vol. 2 HC

(W) Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, Luciano Bottaro, Lars Jensen, Daniel Branca, Pat McGreal, Joe Torcivia, Thad Komorowski (A) Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, Luciano Bottaro, Lars Jensen, Daniel Branca, Pat McGreal, Joe Torcivia, Thad Komorowski (CA) Andrea Freccero
"Howlin' crashwagons!" IDW's Donald Duck comics come together in a collectors' hardback with more of what you want: more amazing epics by Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, and other great comics maestros; more danger for desperate Donald, and more bills for Uncle Scrooge McDuck, forever hauling his nephew's fat out of the fire! With extras for true Disney Comics aficionados, this collection provides hours of history and thrills. Collects issues #7-12.
In Shops: Nov 09, 2016
SRP: $29.99

[Matilda]

OBOYOBOYOBOY! Eurasia Toft and Ludwig Von Drake *and* "You Vindaloo, You Lose a Few"--one of my very favorite "brittle mastery" stories (I've read it in French...where it sadly couldn't have that Best Pun Ever title, though it did have a delightful cover based on the story: coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=FC+JM+2952 )

This is the last (to date) of the Casty/Cavazzano Eurasia Toft stories. I'm hoping IDW will at some point follow this up by printing the Casty/Cavazzano Mickey stories with Estrella Marina, the oceanographer!

I take it that the Donald Quest miniseries will take the place of the regular Donald Duck title for several months? The sub cover for Donald Quest 1 is glorious.

[The KKM]

Donald Quest's particularly notable because when they mention it's new, it really is- appears to be an Italian comic that's getting published first in the States?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Yes, "Donald Quest" does seem intriguing. What also intrigues me is their description of "A Mysterious Melody" as a "what-if" tale; it certainly wasn't described that way in France, and there's nothing in the story proper that lets one think it's a what-if story.

[Ramapith]

Full disclosure: our blurb for "Mysterious Melody" was based on what we took away from a very early, very rough translation. It's not actually a "what-if" story, and the character cited as Casey is actually (according to the writer/artist) his cousin!

Don't want to give anything more away, though—final product is not ready yet!

[sirtao]

Aug 25, 2016 10:17:37 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Yes, "Donald Quest" does seem intriguing. What also intrigues me is their description of "A Mysterious Melody" as a "what-if" tale; it certainly wasn't described that way in France, and there's nothing in the story proper that lets one think it's a what-if story.

it might be as I cannot for my mind to remember such story being published in Italy

[deb]

I've been hoping we'd see Mysterious Melodies ever since I read about it elsewhere. Donald Quest looks interesting...done well, alternate interpretations of the characters can be fun. World of the Dragonlords was a fun one. In hindsight, I wish I'd followed Double Duck and Wizards of Mickey (I did read Ultraheroes, but there really isn't a good reason for EVERYONE in Duckburg to be a superhero...).

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Aug 25, 2016 19:43:59 GMT deb said:

I've been hoping we'd see Mysterious Melodies ever since I read about it elsewhere. Donald Quest looks interesting...done well, alternate interpretations of the characters can be fun. World of the Dragonlords was a fun one. In hindsight, I wish I'd followed Double Duck and Wizards of Mickey (I did read Ultraheroes, but there really isn't a good reason for EVERYONE in Duckburg to be a superhero...).

DoubleDuck feels like one of these series, but it does not actually take place in an alternate continuity; much like the original Duck Avenger, DoubleDuck is only an alias of the regular Donald.

[That Duckfan]

Aug 25, 2016 20:06:25 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Aug 25, 2016 19:43:59 GMT deb said:

I've been hoping we'd see Mysterious Melodies ever since I read about it elsewhere. Donald Quest looks interesting...done well, alternate interpretations of the characters can be fun. World of the Dragonlords was a fun one. In hindsight, I wish I'd followed Double Duck and Wizards of Mickey (I did read Ultraheroes, but there really isn't a good reason for EVERYONE in Duckburg to be a superhero...).

DoubleDuck feels like one of these series, but it does not actually take place in an alternate continuity; much like the original Duck Avenger, DoubleDuck is only an alias of the regular Donald.

Isn't that the case with every Duck Avenger?

Anyway, interesting to read the blurb about IDW's series of Disney graphic novels. I've been thinking about something like that for a while. Seemed to me to be the way to publish longer stories in one go. Right now, there's the trade paperbacks if you want longer stories to be collected in one volume, but I don't like those. It feels to me like they might take away from the sales of the monthly comics, because they're more convenient when it comes to the longer stories. I'd buy them, but that would mean letting go of the monthlies -- and with their 60+ years of history, I can't get myself to do that.

The graphic novel format seems like such a good way to collect the DoubleDuck series, in less than dozens of comics. Or these three gorgeous literary adaptations:

coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2945-1P

coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3003-1P

coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3070-1P

[Matilda]

Re: Duck Avenger --it's my understanding from elsewhere on this forum that the original Duck Avenger is "regular Donald" living in Duckburg as we know it, looking to use Gyro's gadgets on, say, Gladstone or the Beagle Boys, while PKNA Duck Avenger is DONALD IN SPAAAAAACE fighting aliens. I'll know more when I have time to read my Duck Avenger #0 this weekend!

I generally don't get excited about the literary adaptations; on the whole, I'd rather see the characters as themselves. The Celoni art looks very cool, though. And I will allow that the Robin Hood parody is by far my favorite Scarpa story, and I'd definitely snap up a graphic novel of that one in English. Plus, a great English script already exists, by our friend GeoX! Let's get that sucker in print!

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Aug 27, 2016 0:26:04 GMT Matilda said:

Re: Duck Avenger --it's my understanding from elsewhere on this forum that the original Duck Avenger is "regular Donald" living in Duckburg as we know it, looking to use Gyro's gadgets on, say, Gladstone or the Beagle Boys, while PKNA Duck Avenger is DONALD IN SPAAAAAACE fighting aliens. I'll know more when I have time to read my Duck Avenger #0 this weekend!

I generally don't get excited about the literary adaptations; on the whole, I'd rather see the characters as themselves. The Celoni art looks very cool, though. And I will allow that the Robin Hood parody is by far my favorite Scarpa story, and I'd definitely snap up a graphic novel of that one in English. Plus, a great English script already exists, by our friend GeoX! Let's get that sucker in print!

It's a little more complicated: normal Duck Avenger is "regular Donald". PKNA is in continuity with the regular Duck Avenger: Donald, as the "mundane" Duck Avenger, discovers an AI which tasks him with fighting aliens IN SPACE. So it's not a "what-if" either. The only alternate continuity here is PK-Pikappa, which takes concepts and characters from PKNA, but does not reference Donald's earlier Phantomius-based Duck Avenger persona.

[The KKM]

I'm pretty sure the authors have stated PKNA is its own continuity spinoff, no? And DoubleDuck's also set in this version of the comics?

... deja-vu, pretty sure we talked about this before too

[Avenger]

I'm pretty sure the authors have stated PKNA is its own continuity spinoff, no?

Nope

[That Duckfan]

Topolino actually published a crossover between the PKNA and DoubleDuck series earlier this year. Ver-r-r-r-y interesting!



coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3153-1P

[Scrooge MacDuck]

They DID? Now that's wildly interesting. Because two or three years ago I'd begun writing a fanfiction about precisely that. Well, not exactly, because in my story it was just the regular Guido Marinta Duck Avenger, not PK. The idea there was that the Agency asked DoubleDuck to investigate and possibly neutralize the Duck Avenger, whom they see as a dangerous wild card…