Post by mickeyanddonaldfan on Jan 16, 2021 14:00:41 GMT
Wikipedia says they are, and the issues are still listed on Comixology, but on the other hand, they are still not in the Previews World catalog. I really don't know.
If they haven't been listed in Previews, I would say no. Disney might be planning to continue them on ComiXology in digital-only formats, but right now, Disney is more interested in their streaming platform over anything else. So the last so many planned IDW issues are in a sort of limbo. The newspaper strip reprints and Don Rosa Artist Editions are dead, though. Don't take anything I say as Word-of-Mouse, however, as I don't work for Disney or IDW.
If they haven't been listed in Previews, I would say no. Disney might be planning to continue them on ComiXology in digital-only formats, but right now, Disney is more interested in their streaming platform over anything else. So the last so many planned IDW issues are in a sort of limbo. The newspaper strip reprints and Don Rosa Artist Editions are dead, though. Don't take anything I say as Word-of-Mouse, however, as I don't work for Disney or IDW.
This still hurts.
I absolutely adored what they were doing with the newspaper strips, it's such a shame to see them go. Still holding out hope that they may come back at some point, but I'm not going to count my chickens.
Resident autistic, diabetic duck fan.
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If they haven't been listed in Previews, I would say no. Disney might be planning to continue them on ComiXology in digital-only formats, but right now, Disney is more interested in their streaming platform over anything else. So the last so many planned IDW issues are in a sort of limbo. The newspaper strip reprints and Don Rosa Artist Editions are dead, though. Don't take anything I say as Word-of-Mouse, however, as I don't work for Disney or IDW.
Kurtis Findlay at IDW confirmed long ago on Facebook that the newspaper strip reprints are dead. So no reason to doubt that.
As for the second Rosa Artist Edition, it's felt obvious for several years that it's dead in the water. I mean, the first volume came out in the start of 2015 from what I remember. There's no logical reason why the next one shouldn't have come out six months or a year after that. IDW certainly isn't missing the original art for Rosa's stories (which was the reason why their Barks Artist Edition never happened).
The trade collection of the last DuckTales miniseries had been cancelled as well. So the question remains: who (if anyone) will pick up the Duck ‘n’ Mouse license for monthly comics next? Perhaps now is not the time to start new monthly comics with comic book shops on the ropes as comic book publishers are still reeling from the after effects of Diamond Comics’ COVID closure and a changing comics market.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jan 22, 2021 8:21:21 GMT
OT The single issue format needs to disappear for the North American direct market to be reborn. The staple-bounded single issues belongs to an era where comics stories were short, making every single issues self-contained in a sense. The format serving the medium. In todays American comics (actually, probably since the 70's) the conception of series, plots and storytelling devices is adapted to the format. This is the perfect recipe to create comics that suck. And suck they do most often, indeed. Now, this argument applies to comic series written and produced in the US, which we know not to be the case for Disney comics nowadays. But obviously, the ability of low selling series to survive in a market depends on the solidity of the market, which itself depends on the quality of the best selling titles. END OF OT
If it could be re-edited and dialogued better, I wonder if “The New Adventures of the McDuck Dynasty” would make a good collected edition book? As strange as the English translation IDW put out is, I find myself wondering where the story was going.
If it could be re-edited and dialogued better, I wonder if “The New Adventures of the McDuck Dynasty” would make a good collected edition book? As strange as the English translation IDW put out is, I find myself wondering where the story was going.
I still wonder why exactly THAT series was picked up, especially considering that the classic series that this builds on was never translated to English.
If it could be re-edited and dialogued better, I wonder if “The New Adventures of the McDuck Dynasty” would make a good collected edition book? As strange as the English translation IDW put out is, I find myself wondering where the story was going.
I still wonder why exactly THAT series was picked up, especially considering that the classic series that this builds on was never translated to English.
Yes, I would *far* rather have seen the classic McDuck Dynasty stories. Might have even bought them in spite of the poor translation!
I still wonder why exactly THAT series was picked up, especially considering that the classic series that this builds on was never translated to English.
Yes, I would *far* rather have seen the classic McDuck Dynasty stories. Might have even bought them in spite of the poor translation!
On the plus side, maybe there's a chance they can come to U.S. shores with good translation in the future. I have to admit I haven't really considered picking up any Disney comics from IDW since the editorial and translator shift.
Yeah, me too. It just feels odd. Speaking of, that series still hasn’t been properly published here in Denmark 🙄... Rrr
aHAH, so you did not get a chance to see Mickey Mouse as a Confederate general in the Civil War? I am so sorry for you guys
Jokes apart, I am a well known strong critic of Martina's writing. I remember mildly enjoying a couple of chapters of that series, but the rest was bad for me.
It is quite hard to reprint that story out of its original country (where it can be properly contextualised with a preface), and not just for Mickey being on the wrong side of the American Civil War. Firstly, it has a first chapter that was written on the wave of the enthusiasm for the moon landing. Not very appealing as a premise in 2021, right? Moreover, it was an ad hoc story written to promote a series of coin coming out as gadgets with every weekly issue. I think that was the beginning of Topolino's tradition to have a series of gadget every summer, with some related promotional stories inside. I still remember when in the summer of 1994 they gave us a buildable walkie talkie as summer gadget, and the year after maybe a Mickey photo camera, and then some years after the PKNA poker cards, and so on. But now I am digressing.
All this to say that the original Dynasty series is mostly loved in Italy for nostalgic reasons. Not worth it, unless you are really an hardcore Martina's ducks fan, and you want to see him putting Donald and Scrooge in the ancient Rome, and then in medieval Scotland, and then in the American Civil War etc...
