Huh. A comic based on a cartoon based on a comic based on characters from cartoons. It doesn't sound well.
Not quite. It's worse: it's a comic based on a cartoon based on a comic and a cartoon based on these comics which were themselves based on comics based on cartoons.
(Legend: comic = the new DuckTales comic; cartoon = the new DuckTales; comic = the classic Disney comics by Barks and others; cartoon = the old DuckTales; comics = the early Taliaferro comics; cartoons = the classic Donald Duck cartoons)
Much like the original DuckTales comics from Gladstone, it's promotion. It puts the brand (DuckTales) in the public eye, and gets people who might not read an Uncle Scrooge comic book to read Disney comics. Will a DuckTales comic last as long as Uncle Scrooge? Of course not. But it is a good promotional tool for Disney, and I'm sure they don't expect everyone who reads Uncle Scrooge is going to read DuckTales.
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Apr 19, 2017 13:19:52 GMT
I was surprised that IDW is putting these out, rather than Joe Books, but if the rumors referenced on this thread about Joe Books is true, I guess I shouldn't be. I never understood why the Disney properties were split between two publishers the way they are, and I understand it's something of a touchy subject, but I hope someday we'll know the background history (just like I still don't know what happened to the Boom Disney license towards the end!).
Coming back to this new DuckTales book, are we 100% sure these aren't cine-comics, like the Mickey Mouse Shorts book was? The previews kind of gives me that feel, and it's odd that creators have not been announced while sample pages are already available. I guess the fact that this comic is coming out concurrently with the new series argues against that. The first issue ("#0", sigh) coming out in July is probably the first immersion we'll get into the continuity of the DuckTales reboot, coming out before the TV series premiers (I assume), so it'll probably answer a lot of our questions about character relationships and settings.
Huh. A comic based on a cartoon based on a comic based on characters from cartoons. It doesn't sound well.
Not quite. It's worse: it's a comic based on a cartoon based on a comic and a cartoon based on these comics which were themselves based on comics based on cartoons.
(Legend: comic = the new DuckTales comic; cartoon = the new DuckTales; comic = the classic Disney comics by Barks and others; cartoon = the old DuckTales; comics = the early Taliaferro comics; cartoons = the classic Donald Duck cartoons)
I'd say it's a comic based on a cartoon based on a comic and a cartoon based on these comics which were themselves based on based on cartoons and on comics based on cartoons.
Much like the original DuckTales comics from Gladstone, it's promotion. It puts the brand (DuckTales) in the public eye, and gets people who might not read an Uncle Scrooge comic book to read Disney comics. Will a DuckTales comic last as long as Uncle Scrooge? Of course not. But it is a good promotional tool for Disney, and I'm sure they don't expect everyone who reads Uncle Scrooge is going to read DuckTales.
I know it's promotion, but it's a shame that the Uncle Scrooge comics and the DuckTales tv series based on these comics couldn't promote each other. I guess the "original sin" was the use of "DuckTales" as a brand rather than simply as the title of the 1987 series.
The new DuckTales comic will be valuable to those of us who would like to study the particulars of the new art style. Getting to see the way it looks in different poses and angles. (Oh, yeah, and reading it could be fun, too.)
I'm also really happy to hear about the IDW DuckTales comic. And a sea serpent/lake monster! I love those critters! I have a fairly complete collection of Disney comics stories featuring lake monsters, at least those published in English, French or German.
So, I still don't know how I'm actually going to be able to view the new DuckTales--whether I'll be able to see them when broadcast or whether I'll have to wait until the first season comes out on DVD. Though the fact that GeoX is considering reviewing them as they appear is making me think I'll have to find a way to watch them on initial broadcast. But at least I do know where I'll be able to buy the comics, yay!
I assume that someone would post the news here if there were rumors/indications that Disney was planning to release the as-yet-unreleased episodes of the original DuckTales on DVD. I had high hopes that they would do so, as part of the publicity ramping up to the new series. I want Ducky Mountain High!
I think they have a YouTube channel DISNEY XD in multiple countries, and the original show is available on Amazon.
Thank you for mentioning the YouTube Disney XD channel--I hadn't heard about that, and it might indeed be the way for me to watch the new DuckTales. I don't have any TV cable service, and was not about to get it just for DuckTales! So I had thought I might have to wait for DVD releases (if any).
But as for the original show being available--I don't know of any way to buy episodes of the original DuckTales apart from the DVD sets, and only approximately 3/4 of the episodes have been released on DVD in Region One, in three volumes. Three episodes I very much want are among those not yet released on DVD: Ducky Mountain High, The Unbreakable Bin and The Land of Trala La.
I am very happy with IDW's handling on Disney properties and expect great things with new materials. Just about everything outside of Disney I am buying now is also IDW (Rom, Highlander, Power Puff).
I have high hopes for new Ducktales show and book. The art style is certainly different.
A few details about the DuckTales "retailer incentive" variants:
A 1/10-variant of DuckTales #0 will be published like we are used to with the other Diseny titles from IDW. The cover art is now on Previewsworld, and the most interesting about that cover is the text "Born in 1867". This suggest the DuckTales stories won't take place in modern time (like the Don Rosa stories) ..or Scrooge must be super-old!
DuckTales #1 actually comes in 4 different variants where two of them are "retailer incentive" variants:
JUL170522 DUCKTALES #1 CVR A GHIGLIONE 09/13/17 SRP: $3.99 JUL170523 DUCKTALES #1 CVR B GHIGLIONE 09/13/17 SRP: $3.99 JUL170524 DUCKTALES #1 10 COPY INCV 09/13/17 SRP: PI JUL170525 DUCKTALES #1 25 COPY INCV 09/13/17 SRP: PI
I'm also really happy to hear about the IDW DuckTales comic. And a sea serpent/lake monster! I love those critters! I have a fairly complete collection of Disney comics stories featuring lake monsters, at least those published in English, French or German.
So, I still don't know how I'm actually going to be able to view the new DuckTales--whether I'll be able to see them when broadcast or whether I'll have to wait until the first season comes out on DVD. Though the fact that GeoX is considering reviewing them as they appear is making me think I'll have to find a way to watch them on initial broadcast. But at least I do know where I'll be able to buy the comics, yay!
I assume that someone would post the news here if there were rumors/indications that Disney was planning to release the as-yet-unreleased episodes of the original DuckTales on DVD. I had high hopes that they would do so, as part of the publicity ramping up to the new series. I want Ducky Mountain High!
I know about Barks' "No Such Varmint" (1951) (actually located in an inlet of The Pacific Ocean, in The Alaska Panhandle), The Loch Eerie Monster (Strobl 1958), and The Loch Less Monster (Barks 1960), and I seem to remember a 1950s story drawn by Jack Bradbury (but maybe there was no real monster, but only a hoax?), and, possibly, a 1990s story drawn by Branca (but did it actually show a monster? - or was it just about Scrooge's ancestral castle?). Was there ever a Disney Comics story about The Ogo Pogo??? My best friend from young childhood moved to the shore of Lake Okanagan, and resided there for almost 50 years, listening to the natives' legends, and stories of sightings and related human accidents and deaths.