do anyone know at what rate the trade paperbacks will be published now when the bimonthly single issue output has been cancelled?
There's no official information on that. We got one book this summer with the 4th book listed for January 2019. This suggested a schedule with two books a year, but 4th book was later removed from Amazon and is probably pushed back to later in the year or maybe cancelled. I don't think we should get our hopes up for more than one book a year if we even get more.
as I see it this year's yet only single trade paperback must have been due to and connected with all other delays IDW had with their Disney titles. it would not benefit the title if only 150 pages a year was published in one paperback, no customer sticks up with a comic with such sparse schedule(well except from the hardcore fans). If they want the title to suceed they must up the series output and gain momentum I think. one trade paper per quarter or at least every fourth month if the first is too impossible. the original series is 50 issues so one TPB(2 issues) a year is doomed to fail.
I just got book #3 today. So far all of the Duck Avenger: New Adventures books have been very good, and this one is no exception. The artwork is a lot more dynamic than your average Donald Duck story and the stories are action-packed with just the right amount of humor thrown in. Jonathan Gray does a good job with the English dialogue. The art in the first story in this new book (“Earthquake!”) is particularly good. I hope we will continue to see more of the Duck Avenger: New Adventures series in the future, especially if the current localization crew is involved.
Glad I'm not the only one who loves Francesco Guerrini's art (which is clearly influenced by Barks and Rosa, but still does its own thing). If I understood correctly, this is actually his US debut. Sadly, he only drew three more PKNA issues (plus some one-pagers), but he has been working for Topolino and other Italian issues for years and is still active. Hopefully IDW will print some of his "normal" stories in their regular series too. He has worked with many renowned authors such as Cimino, Pezzin, Sisti, Stabile, and many others - he even wrote some of his early stuff himself, and the results were often very good too.
"Earthquake" is as dramatic as anything. Check it out if you haven't!
The art in the first story in this new book (“Earthquake!”) is particularly good.
The artist, Guerrini, is not only one of the most peculiar Disney comics artists, but also (when he writes) the most "barksian" of all the Italians (arguably the only one).
I can see why some might not like it, and his more recent art doesn't appeal to me quite as much as the earlier stuff, but just look at this beautiful splash panel or this nice Barks homage. Hard to find an Italian Disney artist with more "realism" in his work, for better or worse.