It's awesome that we're getting these. Back issues of the Gladstone DuckTales series aren't particularly hard to find but it's always nice to have the option of getting them in trade form as well. The Curse of Flabbergé has been released in a trade before since that was one of the stories Boom released back when they converted Uncle Scrooge into a DuckTales series for eight issues but I don't think most of those Van Horn stories can be found in trades.
What's with The Euro Disneyland Adventure in volume 2? I've never heard of that one before but the inducks page for it makes it seem like a normal Uncle Scrooge story rather than a DuckTales one. The only connection I see is that it's only other American printing was alongside stories based on other Disney Afternoon shows.
Are we going to get the stories made for the Disney Adventures magazine in later volumes? Those would be neat to see.
What's with The Euro Disneyland Adventure in volume 2? I've never heard of that one before but the inducks page for it makes it seem like a normal Uncle Scrooge story rather than a DuckTales one. The only connection I see is that it's only other American printing was alongside stories based on other Disney Afternoon shows.
It's loosely connected to DuckTales. That is to say, it might as well be a regular story, but a cursory effort was made to make it a DuckTales story through the Beagle Boys being the DuckTales ones.
There are certainly some very skippable DuckTales comics, especially the Jamie Diaz material that was used to introduce the DuckTales comic book at Gladstone Comics. "The City Under the Ice" was one of the highlights of Gladstone's DT run (other than William Van Horn's stories). The two serialized stories done for Disney's comic book line were pretty good, but have already been collected by Gemstone Publishing. There also was a movie adaptation by John Lustig with Jamie Diaz Studio artists doing the art that is pretty good, too.
What's with The Euro Disneyland Adventure in volume 2? I've never heard of that one before but the inducks page for it makes it seem like a normal Uncle Scrooge story rather than a DuckTales one. The only connection I see is that it's only other American printing was alongside stories based on other Disney Afternoon shows.
It's loosely connected to DuckTales. That is to say, it might as well be a regular story, but a cursory effort was made to make it a DuckTales story through the Beagle Boys being the DuckTales ones.
I read that story recently in the German publication "Duckscher Weltatlas". I'm really a fan of Romano Scarpa but that story was really bad (ok, he didn't write it himself). Also, it had nothing to do with DuckTales besides these strange versions of the Beagle Boys.
It's loosely connected to DuckTales. That is to say, it might as well be a regular story, but a cursory effort was made to make it a DuckTales story through the Beagle Boys being the DuckTales ones.
I read that story recently in the German publication "Duckscher Weltatlas". I'm really a fan of Romano Scarpa but that story was really bad (ok, he didn't write it himself). Also, it had nothing to do with DuckTales besides these strange versions of the Beagle Boys.
Eh, maybe the translation was bad. It's definitely no classic, but as a child I liked it quite a bit (despite its hilariously off depiction of Phantom Manor).
There are certainly some very skippable DuckTales comics, especially the Jamie Diaz material that was used to introduce the DuckTales comic book at Gladstone Comics. "The City Under the Ice" was one of the highlights of Gladstone's DT run (other than William Van Horn's stories). The two serialized stories done for Disney's comic book line were pretty good, but have already been collected by Gemstone Publishing. There also was a movie adaptation by John Lustig with Jamie Diaz Studio artists doing the art that is pretty good, too.
If IDW has the rights to reprint material produced by Disney Comics, Inc., I'd love to see collected trades of the original stories they created for Mickey Mouse Adventures (featuring a few very interesting new villains), Chip N 'Dale Rescue Rangers and all the Disney-related comics published in Disney Adventures. Roger Rabbit/Toontown, too, of course, although I don't know who owns the rights to the character now. I already own most of the individual issues these stories originally appeared in, having bought them when they came out or as back issues much later, but it'd be great to have them in collected form.
If IDW has the rights to reprint material produced by Disney Comics, Inc., I'd love to see collected trades of the original stories they created for Mickey Mouse Adventures (featuring a few very interesting new villains), Chip N 'Dale Rescue Rangers and all the Disney-related comics published in Disney Adventures. Roger Rabbit/Toontown, too, of course, although I don't know who owns the rights to the character now. I already own most of the individual issues these stories originally appeared in, having bought them when they came out or as back issues much later, but it'd be great to have them in collected form.
I really wish Joe Books had reprinted the remaining Darkwing Duck comics that were in Disney Adventures magazine before they lost the license to that series. They couldn't at least sacrifice a couple of the cinestory books for those?
If IDW has the rights to reprint material produced by Disney Comics, Inc., I'd love to see collected trades of the original stories they created for Mickey Mouse Adventures (featuring a few very interesting new villains), Chip N 'Dale Rescue Rangers and all the Disney-related comics published in Disney Adventures. Roger Rabbit/Toontown, too, of course, although I don't know who owns the rights to the character now. I already own most of the individual issues these stories originally appeared in, having bought them when they came out or as back issues much later, but it'd be great to have them in collected form.
I really wish Joe Books had reprinted the remaining Darkwing Duck comics that were in Disney Adventures magazine before they lost the license to that series. They couldn't at least sacrifice a couple of the cinestory books for those?
Disney's Collosal Comics Collection reprinted some of these (as well as publishing brand new material that was originally intended for the titles cancelled after the Great Disney Comics Implosion), but those issues are next-to-impossible to find. A set of trades of all comics published in Disney Adventures and material unique to Disney's Collosal Comics Collection would be much appreciated, but again, since a lot of that is non-DuckTales' 87 Disney Afternoon material, I'm unsure if IDW has the rights.
Yep. Here's our Van Horn book. With Treasure of the Lost Lamp for some reason but okay.
It looks like they decided not to include The Curse of Flabbergé despite all the solicits for this book directly mentioning it. Fine by me since I already own it as part of Boom's DuckTales trades but I don't know how others would feel about it. I've never read the comic version of Treasure of the Lost Lamp so I have no idea how it compares to the movie which most people weren't ever stellar about in the first place. (General opinions of the movie from what I've seen typically settle around "it was okay".)
With Treasure of the Lost Lamp for some reason but okay.
David Gerstein explained on some other thread that the book features the DuckTales comics by Van Horn and Lustig, including stories that one did without the other. Hence, Treasure.
The original plan was to pair all the Van Horn-drawn stories with "Flabbergé."
But Disney preferred that we reprint "Lost Lamp" as the book's long story, especially after the discovery that most of the original 1990 color survived—so I got strongly behind it, liking how this would give us an all-Van Horn and Lustig book (as I noted in the other thread).
All but one page of the original color was recovered in electronic form, making this one of the earliest stories I know for which American computer files still exist. (One page was missing and needed to be recolored, but that was easy... recoloring the whole thing might have been a budget buster.)
But Disney preferred that we reprint "Lost Lamp" as the book's long story, especially after the discovery that most of the original 1990 color survived—so I got strongly behind it, liking how this would give us an all-Van Horn and Lustig book (as I noted in the other thread).
This is purely an observation as a fan and reader, and not one I expect you to respond to even if you were able, but I'm surprised at Disney's apparent level of involvement in a project of this kind. It runs contrary to the impression I had, expressed on another thread, that Disney as a company tended to employ a hands-off approach with licensed American publishers of their comics outside of exercising veto power over potentially objectionable content ... the above revelation suggests that they are also involved in planning and content decisions, which is very interesting.