Disney comics you wish they brought back

[enemy1]

Are they any who like to see back? I would like to see Rescue Rangers or Talespin come back? Maybe have a comic deal with how Iron Vulture was made or what happened to Molly’s father or have another story like Dogs of War?

[Spectrus]

Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine was a great series that feels unfinished to me. Also, I think more could be done with Giorgio Pezzin's "Lords of the Galaxy" - the possibilities are unlimited, Titanius said the war will continue...

[schizo]

Roger Rabbit. Always thought this was very interesting and weird universe that could be explored further.

Great Mouse Detective. Still printed in dutch comics? Haven't seen any stories in my country or in english in decades though.

I liked the Darkwing Duck comics from BOOM and Joe Books, would be nice if the creative team behind those could get this series going again.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Mar 20, 2019 10:42:49 GMT schizo said:

Roger Rabbit. Always thought this was very interesting and weird universe that could be explored further.

Seconded. I'm guessing it was Disney Comics, Inc's most popular "modern" series, given that it spawned a spinoff title (although sales were clearly not strong enough to survive the Implosion).  I'm not even sure who owns the rights to the franchise anymore, so it'll probably be tricky to resurrect the character.

[Spectrus]

Mar 20, 2019 10:42:49 GMT schizo said:

I liked the Darkwing Duck comics from BOOM and Joe Books, would be nice if the creative team behind those could get this series going again.

Seconded. The Joe Books stories were just printed in German and I noticed that they set up a lot of future issues....

[Matilda]

Mar 20, 2019 12:19:18 GMT Spectrus said:

Mar 20, 2019 10:42:49 GMT schizo said:

I liked the Darkwing Duck comics from BOOM and Joe Books, would be nice if the creative team behind those could get this series going again.

Seconded. The Joe Books stories were just printed in German and I noticed that they set up a lot of future issues....

Thirded. Really enjoyed the series, was really bummed when it was canceled. Yes, clearly Sparrow & Silvani had lots of future plans for the series. I've gotta think there are many Darkwing fans who never realized the comics were being published or couldn't find them easily. I wish there were a way for a trade paperback of Sparrow & Silvani's further stories to be crowdfunded!

Of course, the comics I'd most like to see back are worth-the-price versions of Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories, with stories newly written in English or translated by people who know and love the American Disney comics tradition.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

I somehow never could get into Darkwing Duck or any of the non-DuckTales Disney Afternoon titles, probably because I didn't grow up with those shows. I also have no interest in Donald-as-a-superhero or Donald-as-a-spy type of series, nor literary adaptions starring Disney characters.

[schizo]

Mar 21, 2019 13:04:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

I somehow never could get into Darkwing Duck or any of the non-DuckTales Disney Afternoon titles, probably because I doidn't grow up with those shows. I also have no interest in Donald-as-a-superhero or Donald-as-a-spy type of series, nor literary adaptions starring Disney characters.

It was probably one of the DA shows I had the easiest time getting into since it was entirely it's own thing that aside from a few connections to Ducktales, had nothing to do with any pre-existing property. Whereas Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop and Talespin took familiar characters out of the environments and roles I associated them with and did something totally new and different with them. Which felt off-putting and alien to me, though I still find them to be decent shows.

Also not a huge fan of turning Donald into a superhero or a successful crimefighter, since that doesn't fit his personality in my opinion. Donald is lazy and clumsy and can barely hold a normal job, so it makes no sense for me to have him be a competent and strong superhero. At least with Super Goof he mostly behaved the same as he did normally, and had actual superpowers to help him overcome his imperfections.

[Matilda]

Mar 21, 2019 13:37:07 GMT schizo said:

Mar 21, 2019 13:04:33 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

I somehow never could get into Darkwing Duck or any of the non-DuckTales Disney Afternoon titles, probably because I doidn't grow up with those shows. I also have no interest in Donald-as-a-superhero or Donald-as-a-spy type of series, nor literary adaptions starring Disney characters.

It was probably one of the DA shows I had the easiest time getting into since it was entirely it's own thing that aside from a few connections to Ducktales, had nothing to do with any pre-existing property. Whereas Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop and Talespin took familiar characters out of the environments and roles I associated them with and did something totally new and different with them. Which felt off-putting and alien to me, though I still find them to be decent shows.

My experience echoes schizo's, here. I agree with Baar Baar Jinx on the "Donald not being Donald" comics, which generally also leave me cold, with the exception of just a few of the countless literary parodies. No interest in spy Donald or superhero Donald. As schizo says, I have  a similar reaction to Goof Troop and Rescue Rangers. That's not Chip & Dale! Talespin doesn't affect me that way because I wasn't really attached to any of those characters in their former incarnation. I've only seen a handful of Talespin episodes, but thought them well done and wasn't bothered by the reuse of characters from another property.

Darkwing, though, is its own thing. I enjoy about a quarter of the episodes, and really enjoyed the Sparrow/Silvani comics. It doesn't exist in the same universe as my mental Duckburg. For one thing, the physics is different! The only overlap is Launchpad, because while he's only a very minor character in my mental Duckburg, I do allow him existence as a pilot whom Scrooge sometimes hires, for the sake of a couple of stories that have entered my headcanon. I deal with this overlap by ignoring it, and pretending that Darkwing Duck's Launchpad is what Duckburg Launchpad would be in a parallel universe.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Mar 21, 2019 13:57:45 GMT Matilda said:

My experience echoes schizo's, here. I agree with Baar Baar Jinx on the "Donald not being Donald" comics, which generally also leave me cold, with the exception of just a few of the countless literary parodies. No interest in spy Donald or superhero Donald. As schizo says, I have  a similar reaction to Goof Troop and Rescue Rangers. That's not Chip & Dale! Talespin doesn't affect me that way because I wasn't really attached to any of those characters in their former incarnation. I've only seen a handful of Talespin episodes, but thought them well done and wasn't bothered by the reuse of characters from another property.

Darkwing, though, is its own thing. I enjoy about a quarter of the episodes, and really enjoyed the Sparrow/Silvani comics. It doesn't exist in the same universe as my mental Duckburg. For one thing, the physics is different! The only overlap is Launchpad, because while he's only a very minor character in my mental Duckburg, I do allow him existence as a pilot whom Scrooge sometimes hires, for the sake of a couple of stories that have entered my headcanon. I deal with this overlap by ignoring it, and pretending that Darkwing Duck's Launchpad is what Duckburg Launchpad would be in a parallel universe.

I agree with all of this. The Darkwing universe is, unlike most other Disney Afternoon shows, self-contained. It's just that it somehow doesn't appeal to me. But, as I've said before, if you want there to be a superhero or spy element in the Duck comics-verse, just port Darkwing in (rather than repurpose Donald or other classic characters to fit such roles). Other than the cartoon physics, the denizens of St. Canard would mesh well with those of Duckburg, even Comics-Duckburg.

[squeakyboots]

Feel free to attack me if you hate any of these ideas.

Darkwing Duck - As others have said above, the recent comics from Boom and Joe Book were terrific and left a lot of things unfinished making a continuation of the Joe Books series from the same writer and artist at the top of my most wanted list.

Wizards of Mickey - At the time Boom was releasing the first arc in English, the whole concept of this side series seemed interesting to me but I ended up falling out of it after a few issues which I think had more to do with the way the stories were translated and I feel that with better localization, this series could really shine and I'd love to see where the later arcs take them. I know it's a story about Mickey, Donald and Goofy as magic users but it clearly takes place in an alternate universe so it isn't part of the main Disney comics canon. (Not that there really is a canon. Let's be honest here.)

Aladdin - A fantasy action/adventure comic taking place after the movie that's similar in tone to the tv series. Could be great with the right people on it.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - That one comic IDW printed in WDC&S was really good. I wish there were more of them but I think that's the only one they made. There were also Oswald comics made around the time the Epic Mickey video game was released that aren't available in physical form anywhere.

[Spectrus]

Mar 22, 2019 13:48:27 GMT squeakyboots said:

Feel free to attack me if you hate any of these ideas.
Wizards of Mickey - At the time Boom was releasing the first arc in English, the whole concept of this side series seemed interesting to me but I ended up falling out of it after a few issues which I think had more to do with the way the stories were translated and I feel that with better localization, this series could really shine and I'd love to see where the later arcs take them. I know it's a story about Mickey, Donald and Goofy as magic users but it clearly takes place in an alternate universe so it isn't part of the main Disney comics canon. (Not that there really is a canon. Let's be honest here.)

Given that WOM was partly aimed at the American market, it was quite bewildering when I found out that nothing beyond the first arc made it to the US. But I don't feel you've missed quite as much as with DoubleDuck (which really hit a peak a few stories after the last one that was printed by Boom!) or Duck Avenger's New Adventures. The second WoM cycle was still good, but really dark. And the third was even darker and nowhere near as good. They've been rebuilding the entire universe after that and we've had some interesting stories recently. Not to mention that from the sixth book onward (I'm using the German releases here) the art was taken over by Roberto Marini - a pupil of Marco Rota, who absolutely excels himself in these stories.

[Spectrus]

Mar 21, 2019 15:09:00 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Mar 21, 2019 13:57:45 GMT Matilda said:

My experience echoes schizo's, here. I agree with Baar Baar Jinx on the "Donald not being Donald" comics, which generally also leave me cold, with the exception of just a few of the countless literary parodies. No interest in spy Donald or superhero Donald. As schizo says, I have  a similar reaction to Goof Troop and Rescue Rangers. That's not Chip & Dale! Talespin doesn't affect me that way because I wasn't really attached to any of those characters in their former incarnation. I've only seen a handful of Talespin episodes, but thought them well done and wasn't bothered by the reuse of characters from another property.

Darkwing, though, is its own thing. I enjoy about a quarter of the episodes, and really enjoyed the Sparrow/Silvani comics. It doesn't exist in the same universe as my mental Duckburg. For one thing, the physics is different! The only overlap is Launchpad, because while he's only a very minor character in my mental Duckburg, I do allow him existence as a pilot whom Scrooge sometimes hires, for the sake of a couple of stories that have entered my headcanon. I deal with this overlap by ignoring it, and pretending that Darkwing Duck's Launchpad is what Duckburg Launchpad would be in a parallel universe.

I agree with all of this. The Darkwing universe is, unlike most other Disney Afternoon shows, self-contained. It's just that it somehow doesn't appeal to me. But, as I've said before, if you want there to be a superhero or spy element in the Duck comics-verse, just port Darkwing in (rather than repurpose Donald or other classic characters to fit such roles). Other than the cartoon physics, the denizens of St. Canard would mesh well with those of Duckburg, even Comics-Duckburg.

Ehm... Donald as a spy in the humorous sense (PIA) goes back to the 1960s (Moldfinger etc.), and while Duck Avenger was originally more of an anti-hero, Pezzin's (excellent, I may add) made him a hero already in the 1970s. This is all long before Darkwing Duck was even created.

DoubleDuck, on the other hand, is much more recent, but for me the appeal is that, at least in those early stories, Donald is sort of muddling his way through in a way that inflated-ego-Darkwing would never do (this changed a bit when Artibani wrote some of the stories, where you could definitely see this Donald had also been Duck Avenger on numerous occasions). Besides, I'm not sure how big Darkwing is in Italy; AFAIK he was never used in Italian stories. He does not have any big influence on the Italian canon, which is largely based on Gottfredson, Barks and Scarpa and their Italian disciples.