I recently picked up some Moby Duck comics (impulsive tendencies and Ebay are a dangerous combination). The stories are ok, but the character has real potential,I really wish Disney would bring him back in some way or another. I read that there were some Italian comics with him published in the early 2000's. Have these ever been released in English?
I read that there were some Italian comics with him published in the early 2000's. Have these ever been released in English?
The serie you are mentioning is probably Le storie della Baia. They make a very great use of Moby. Personally I find those magnitude of times better than those old comics stories, which are often short and silly. Plus the serie has much better art, often made by great artists like Silvio Camboni, Stefano Turconi or Paolo Mottura.
While the serie use a Moby Duck-lookalike, it is totally disconnected from the main Duckburg cast. It also has a Fethry-looking character, but that is even more clear to be a different character, since he is called "Paper Hoog", while the modern day Fethry is "Paperoga".
I just skimmed through the inducks pages, so may have missed something, but I haven't noticed any publications in the anglosphere.
The serie you are mentioning is probably Le storie della Baia. They make a very great use of Moby. Personally I find those magnitude of times better than those old comics stories, which are often short and silly. Plus the serie has much better art, often made by great artists like Silvio Camboni, Stefano Turconi or Paolo Mottura.
While the serie use a Moby Duck-lookalike, it is totally disconnected from the main Duckburg cast. It also has a Fethry-looking character, but that is even more clear to be a different character, since he is called "Paper Hoog", while the modern day Fethry is "Paperoga".
I just skimmed through the inducks pages, so may have missed something, but I haven't noticed any publications in the anglosphere.
Thank you for clearing that up about Fethry's name in the series. I've only seen fan-translated panels of these comics and didn't understand from it if I was looking at the "main" Moby and Fethry, an alternate universe version of them, or perhaps lookalike ancestors.
didn't understand from it if I was looking at the "main" Moby and Fethry, an alternate universe version of them, or perhaps lookalike ancestors.
Definitely not the former. I haven't researched if in some articles or interviews the authors specified it, but my opinion is that is a mix of the latter two. Not ancestors of them (they may be, but we have no confirmation of it, so until then I will not consider them related), just lookalikes. Maybe in a different continuity, maybe in the same but in the past. It doesn't really matter because its microuniverse never interacts with the modern Duckburg, what is important is that the serie is set in a 1800ish - 1900ish (?) port city.
If wanting to read them, I suggest starting from the first, which introduce the characters and shows their first encounter. Then the order of reading matter less, the stories are mostly self-contained adventures. There may be some continuity from one story to the next, but are often lesser details, which can be read as outside the panels adventures if you missed the story where that precise event happened.
didn't understand from it if I was looking at the "main" Moby and Fethry, an alternate universe version of them, or perhaps lookalike ancestors.
Definitely not the former. I haven't researched if in some articles or interviews the authors specified it, but my opinion is that is a mix of the latter two. Not ancestors of them (they may be, but we have no confirmation of it, so until then I will not consider them related), just lookalikes. Maybe in a different continuity, maybe in the same but in the past. It doesn't really matter because its microuniverse never interacts with the modern Duckburg, what is important is that the serie is set in a 1800ish - 1900ish (?) port city.
If wanting to read them, I suggest starting from the first, which introduce the characters and shows their first encounter. Then the order of reading matter less, the stories are mostly self-contained adventures. There may be some continuity from one story to the next, but are often lesser details, which can be read as outside the panels adventures if you missed the story where that precise event happened.
The stories take place in a city called Duckport in the XIX century and the characters are not nowadays Moby and Fethry (someone should correct it on the INDUCKS).
This is what the series creator, Alberto Savini, said about it here: "Trascorremmo il pomeriggio parlandone a ruota libera in un indimenticabile brainstorming, e finimmo per eliminare Paperino e Malachia e trasportare la vicenda ai primi dell’Ottocento."