It says that here is no official explanation for the "OK", it may just mean "OK" in the usual sense of "everything is fine".
And all this time I thought naming an alien "O. K." was some kind of loose parody of "E. T.," as rendered by someone with English as a second language... but it's actually unlikely: the character beat the movie into view by almost a year.
The "everything is fine" definition of OK Quack's name does seem to fit his relatively easygoing personality. I can't say that I've been overwhelmed by the first two OK Quack issues, but they have at least been fun.
The smaller trades sell better to kids, not just because of the size, but the price.
Gemstone tried something similar with their takealong titles (Mickey Mouse Adventures, Donald Duck Adventures), and I don't know if it attracted a lot of kids. Well, I guess they know what they're doing, but I wonder if it's worth antagonizing the adult/collector's market, who I suspect will always be their biggest consumers. Then again, maybe my level of obsessiveness with this is atypical.
The smaller trades sell better to kids, not just because of the size, but the price.
Gemstone tried something similar with their takealong titles (Mickey Mouse Adventures, Donald Duck Adventures), and I don't know if it attracted a lot of kids. Well, I guess they know what they're doing, but I wonder if it's worth antagonizing the adult/collector's market, who I suspect will always be their biggest consumers. Then again, maybe my level of obsessiveness with this is atypical.
That's what the Timeless Tales hardcover books are for. Though I guess it remains to be seen if DuckTales will get released in a similar format.
The Duck Avenger trades are in full comic book size for what it's worth.
I think that the Timeless Tales hardcovers have a limited level of success, sales-wise. Uncle Scrooge's fourth volume seems to have been cancelled. Aside from the third Mickey Mouse volume and the Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Vault book, I suspect that we'll see fewer hardcover collections of IDW material. I think that the paperbacks sell better and cost less to produce. I can see hardcover editions of the Barks, Rosa and Gottfredson material selling to collectors, but for newer (to the US, anyways) material, hardcovers are a tougher sell, especially for material that is more easily available in individual issues and paperbacks. (That said, I have all of the Timeless Tales books because I have a weakness for bookshelf editions, especially after having sold off all of my pre-Fantagraphics/IDW Disney hardcovers years ago).
I think that the Timeless Tales hardcovers have a limited level of success, sales-wise. Uncle Scrooge's fourth volume seems to have been cancelled. Aside from the third Mickey Mouse volume and the Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Vault book, I suspect that we'll see fewer hardcover collections of IDW material. I think that the paperbacks sell better and cost less to produce. I can see hardcover editions of the Barks, Rosa and Gottfredson material selling to collectors, but for newer (to the US, anyways) material, hardcovers are a tougher sell, especially for material that is more easily available in individual issues and paperbacks. (That said, I have all of the Timeless Tales books because I have a weakness for bookshelf editions, especially after having sold off all of my pre-Fantagraphics/IDW Disney hardcovers years ago).
I can relate. The idea of buying hardcover versions of non-Barks, non-Rosa, non-Gottfredson Disney comics material does not appeal to me. I also would prefer to keep buying individual issues of the "Core Four" titles (more for tradition's sake than anything else, I might have felt differently if the titles did not carry the Legacy Numbering), but in the main, I vastly prefer trades (both for Disney and non-Disney comics). For DuckTales, the only reason I began buying individual issues was because I rightly suspected that the trade would be smaller-than-standard size. Somehow I can't stand the smaller trades (Boom! did that on occasion, as well). I have no interest in Duck Avenger, might've considered picking up Donald Quest but looks like the trade is smaller-than-standard size too.
Deb, do you buy the individual issues and the trade and the Timeless Tales? What are others' buying habits?
I like reading the issues each month, although once I heard that there were going to be hardcovers, I didn't bother with the paperbacks after the first Donald Duck book. I got Donald Quest in paperback as a birthday gift. I bought the Duck Avenger trades to support the title, in the hope it would continue. The upcoming Disney Masters from Fantagraphics sounds good, as it is reprinting material that isn't currently in circulation. Don't know if I really need to read each DuckTales issue more than once...so far it's kind of an iffy book.
The OK stories I've read so far are… not bad. Nothing spectcular. Just average Italian Disney comics stuff, with this new charact thrown in. Unfortunately OK often ends up feeling like Eega Beeva lite (the early, cloudcuckoolanger, new-power-every-panel, Gottfredson Beeva, that is). But then again, I love that Eega Beeva, so hey.
Oh man. I really hope the Timeless Tales line didn't get cancelled. I had been buying the single issues of IDW's Disney comics for the first year or two but then I kind of just stopped because I keep all my single issues in boxes so they don't get damaged and for me at least, it's a little annoying to have to pull out one of several boxes and search through it for whichever issue I want to read and then put it back when I'm done with it. It just feels more convenient to pull a book off of a book shelf and read that. And I prefer getting hardcover editions whenever possible since those are more durable than paperbacks and in the case of the Disney comics, they also have the larger size.
I did recently get the paperback editions of Donald Quest and the first DuckTales volume and they're perfectly fine, nothing wrong with them but the hardcovers are just so much nicer to read and are worth the extra money to me. They also look very nice when you have them lined on a shelf next to the Fantagraphics releases.
Oh hey, OK Quack! That's an unexpected twist, fairly obscure. What's next, Little Gum? That one weird S-Coded alien who used to eat money and was friends with the nephews?
I like Little Gum!
He eats chewing gum but can also do all kinds of incredible things with it (his German name is "Bubble Billy") and was created by Giulio Chierchini, so like OK Quack he's another Italian creation. While his introduction was a bit hamfisted plot-wise, I really like all the stories with him, also because of Chierchini's beautiful painted panels:
Last Edit: May 22, 2018 19:21:19 GMT by Spectrus: better late than never :)
Oh hey, OK Quack! That's an unexpected twist, fairly obscure. What's next, Little Gum? That one weird S-Coded alien who used to eat money and was friends with the nephews?
The Little Gum I know doesn't eat money and isn't S-coded...
You misread my post, I didn't mean Little Gum was said little alien etc etc.
I ended up opening a thread about this character later, where we did find out who he was:
Oops, you're right. Still it gave me an opportunity to plug Chierchini's art Never heard of that other character, so I thought you were adding an explanation for those who didn't know lil' Gum.