Disney's Doorways to Danger

[afroduck]

So my copy of Disney's Doorways to Danger just arrived however to my surprise it's a trade paperback yet all listings I can find for it say it should be hardcover. The ISBN on the book matches the hardcovers listings and everything. Was it changed at the last minute to paperback or was there an error with the solicitation? Anyone have any idea?

[hex]

Haven't got the book yet, but for anyone wanting to check out the art style, you can see a flip through on IDW's TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@idwpublishing/video/6981843495526927622

Or a few preview pages:

www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN210430?Prevue=1

issuu.com/idwpublishing/docs/doorwaystodanger_tpb_pr

[afroduck]

Jul 8, 2021 4:09:23 GMT hex said:

Haven't got the book yet, but for anyone wanting to check out the art style, you can see a flip through on IDW's TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@idwpublishing/video/6981843495526927622

Or a few preview pages:

www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN210430?Prevue=1

issuu.com/idwpublishing/docs/doorwaystodanger_tpb_pr

Well in their video it's a paperback like mine, so I guess either all the listings are incorrect saying it's hardcover or it was changed from a hardcover to paperback at some stage.

[deb]

I read the Kindle version of this one. This book's art style will likely take a lot of readers aback, but the really surprising thing is how well the writer knows the Duck and Mouse universes. While it's clearly aimed at younger readers, it isn't trying too hard to show kids how cool and contemporary the characters are like Young Donald Duck did. It's a cute book that, while it may not be on a par with the Disney Masters books, it's better than I thought it would be. I found myself actually getting caught up in this one.

[RobbK1]

Jul 8, 2021 5:39:24 GMT deb said:

I read the Kindle version of this one. This book's art style will likely take a lot of readers aback, but the really surprising thing is how well the writer knows the Duck and Mouse universes. While it's clearly aimed at younger readers, it isn't trying too hard to show kids how cool and contemporary the characters are like Young Donald Duck did. It's a cute book that, while it may not be on a par with the Disney Masters books, it's better than I thought it would be. I found myself actually getting caught up in this one.

I don't like the style of the figures at all.  And I also don't like the modern panel format, like Alfred J. Kwak, or some of the newer style, non-traditional Disney comics, like Darkwing Duck, Super Donald (or whatever they call him), and those newer-style Mickey Mouse detective stories with a new Universe.  I don't like the looks of any of those. 

[Spectrus]

Jul 8, 2021 8:23:36 GMT RobbK1 said:

Jul 8, 2021 5:39:24 GMT deb said:

I read the Kindle version of this one. This book's art style will likely take a lot of readers aback, but the really surprising thing is how well the writer knows the Duck and Mouse universes. While it's clearly aimed at younger readers, it isn't trying too hard to show kids how cool and contemporary the characters are like Young Donald Duck did. It's a cute book that, while it may not be on a par with the Disney Masters books, it's better than I thought it would be. I found myself actually getting caught up in this one.

I don't like the style of the figures at all.  And I also don't like the modern panel format, like Alfred J. Kwak, or some of the newer style, non-traditional Disney comics, like Darkwing Duck, Super Donald (or whatever they call him), and those newer-style Mickey Mouse detective stories with a new Universe.  I don't like the looks of any of those. 

I suppose you're referring to Duck Avenger New Adventures (PKNA in Italian) and Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine. At least judging from the previews, this book is nowhere as adventurous format-wise as those two series (also X-Mickey), they just vary the "cage" a bit and have extremely thick panel borders. Compare to this scan of MMMM...

[sim]

why are the characters drawn like this lol

[RobbK1]

Jul 8, 2021 18:37:55 GMT Spectrus said:

Jul 8, 2021 8:23:36 GMT RobbK1 said:

I don't like the style of the figures at all.  And I also don't like the modern panel format, like Alfred J. Kwak, or some of the newer style, non-traditional Disney comics, like Darkwing Duck, Super Donald (or whatever they call him), and those newer-style Mickey Mouse detective stories with a new Universe.  I don't like the looks of any of those. 

I suppose you're referring to Duck Avenger New Adventures (PKNA in Italian) and Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine. At least judging from the previews, this book is nowhere as adventurous format-wise as those two series (also X-Mickey), they just vary the "cage" a bit and have extremely thick panel borders. Compare to this scan of MMMM...

A prime example of why the thick panel borders are needed using that panel format!

[deb]

Slightly off-topic: except for Doorways to Danger, most of the rest of IDW’s Disney comics are out of stock on IDW’s website. Missing a few issues or collected editions? You can’t get them from IDW anymore.

[afroduck]

Jul 11, 2021 3:15:23 GMT deb said:

Slightly off-topic: except for Doorways to Danger, most of the rest of IDW’s Disney comics are out of stock on IDW’s website. Missing a few issues or collected editions? You can’t get them from IDW anymore.

Yeah, I noticed a while ago that the IDW/LOAC Disney stuff was starting to go out of stock so I snatched up everything I needed. I think the only (non-single issue) thing I wasn't able to get was Donald and Mickey: The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Holiday Collection, however I suspect that since I can't find any copies anywhere that it was never actually released.

[Ramapith]

Jul 11, 2021 5:52:53 GMT afroduck said:

I think the only (non-single issue) thing I wasn't able to get was Donald and Mickey: The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Holiday Collection, however I suspect that since I can't find any copies anywhere that it was never actually released.

Speaking as the editor: it wasn't! Very late in production, my bosses there took the decision to publish separate Christmas and Halloween TPB collections rather than have me combine the two, but somehow the distribution department didn't get the memo, so it remains today in listings of the company's inventory.

It was never published. A lot of people mistakenly think it was...

(Also, unless I'm forgetting something, we never did do a separate Halloween TPB...)

[Mesterius]

Jul 11, 2021 16:22:18 GMT Ramapith said:

Jul 11, 2021 5:52:53 GMT afroduck said:

I think the only (non-single issue) thing I wasn't able to get was Donald and Mickey: The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Holiday Collection, however I suspect that since I can't find any copies anywhere that it was never actually released.

Speaking as the editor: it wasn't! Very late in production, my bosses there took the decision to publish separate Christmas and Halloween TPB collections rather than have me combine the two, but somehow the distribution department didn't get the memo, so it remains today in listings of the company's inventory.

It was never published. A lot of people mistakenly think it was...

(Also, unless I'm forgetting something, we never did do a separate Halloween TPB...)

Sadly, too, there was never a TPB collection of Donald and Mickey #3 and 4. Guess the only option there is to buy the separate comic book issues.

[That Duckfan]

Jul 11, 2021 16:22:18 GMT Ramapith said:

Jul 11, 2021 5:52:53 GMT afroduck said:

I think the only (non-single issue) thing I wasn't able to get was Donald and Mickey: The Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories Holiday Collection, however I suspect that since I can't find any copies anywhere that it was never actually released.

Speaking as the editor: it wasn't! Very late in production, my bosses there took the decision to publish separate Christmas and Halloween TPB collections rather than have me combine the two, but somehow the distribution department didn't get the memo, so it remains today in listings of the company's inventory.

It was never published. A lot of people mistakenly think it was...

(Also, unless I'm forgetting something, we never did do a separate Halloween TPB...)

There must be quite a few rare issues from the last decade-and-a-half of late publishing decisions and fraught cancellations. I wasn't able to secure an issue of Walt Disney Treasury #2 before Boom went bust in summer 2011, but it must've reached some shops in time for it to be on INDUCKS. In your time as editor with Gemstone/Boom/IDW, are there any specific distribution issues that stand out to you?

[Ramapith]

The single rarest modern-day American Disney comic is almost certainly Boom's MICKEY MOUSE CLASSICS 2, which was canceled midway through printing for reasons I'm not sure of. Only a few boxes of it seem to have gotten out, and I'm only aware of a couple of copies in circulation. I'm guessing less than 50 exist. (I don't even own one anymore, having sold mine when times were tight.)

A series of Canadian Disney albums published by Modus several years ago included books that published some, but not all, of the MM CLASSICS 2 contents.