Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jul 26, 2019 20:32:40 GMT
…and here they go acting like "#50 of the new numbering" is a milestone anyone cares about. That said, bradiness aside, that "Under Siege" story they're running to celebrate it could be fun.
Quibbles about quality aside, for any of IDW's Disney comics to have reached 50 issues is quite a feat. They keep getting cancelled or becoming miniseries.
Quibbles about quality aside, for any of IDW's Disney comics to have reached 50 issues is quite a feat. They keep getting cancelled or becoming miniseries.
Yep. Of course, we all know that DuckTales is the main reason why enough Americans are interested enough in Uncle Scrooge to keep his book going on a monthly basis.
Quibbles about quality aside, for any of IDW's Disney comics to have reached 50 issues is quite a feat. They keep getting cancelled or becoming miniseries.
The first 41 issues being mostly great helps. The real test is if the "Fresh and Modern" take lasts 41 issues.
Quibbles about quality aside, for any of IDW's Disney comics to have reached 50 issues is quite a feat. They keep getting cancelled or becoming miniseries.
The first 41 issues being mostly great helps. The real test is if the "Fresh and Modern" take lasts 41 issues.
I'm going to stay out of the "Fresh and Modern" debate. By now, people who know me know where I stand on that one.
Quibbles about quality aside, for any of IDW's Disney comics to have reached 50 issues is quite a feat. They keep getting cancelled or becoming miniseries.
The first 41 issues being mostly great helps. The real test is if the "Fresh and Modern" take lasts 41 issues.
It definitely helped. But, sadly, that didn't keep the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck titles running (or WDC as a monthly).
I think that the 12-part “Search For The Zodiac Stone” hurt Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, in part because of the length, and in part because it runs out of steam as it goes along. Waiting a whole year to finish a mediocre story probably wasn’t very good for sales. The book never quite recovered from its slow start. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck had similar disruptions for four and five issue mini-series that made Zodiac Stone look like Barks or Gottfredson by comparison, the mostly dull “Mickey Mose Shorts Season One” and the peculiar “Donald Quest”. (Seriously, what was the point of Donald Quest?!?) Putting Mickey and Donald’s regular titles on hiatus during these issues probably didn’t help sales either. Please note this post is all speculation on my part.
I think that the 12-part “Search For The Zodiac Stone” hurt Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, in part because of the length, and in part because it runs out of steam as it goes along. Waiting a whole year to finish a mediocre story probably wasn’t very good for sales. The book never quite recovered from its slow start. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck had similar disruptions for four and five issue mini-series that made Zodiac Stone look like Barks or Gottfredson by comparison, the mostly dull “Mickey Mose Shorts Season One” and the peculiar “Donald Quest”. (Seriously, what was the point of Donald Quest?!?) Putting Mickey and Donald’s regular titles on hiatus during these issues probably didn’t help sales either. Please note this post is all speculation on my part.
Yeah, I was always surprised by the choice of "Zodiac Stone" myself, as I didn't find it THAT great when I read it in a Norwegian digest many years ago. I too think it would have been better if WDC had started out in the traditional vein, with a mix of stories/characters.
Zodiac Stone is better as a one book collection where you can get the whole thing all at once, rather than waiting a whole year.
I haven't tried reading it in once-a-month installments, but I think I'll agree to that. And I suppose there is a chance i might like it better in IDW's edition than in the Norwegian edition I read years ago (nicer paper and text font, bigger format, probably a better translation).
Quibbles about quality aside, for any of IDW's Disney comics to have reached 50 issues is quite a feat. They keep getting cancelled or becoming miniseries.
The first 41 issues being mostly great helps. The real test is if the "Fresh and Modern" take lasts 41 issues.
Yeah, wake me when the "Fresh and Modern Version" of this title equals or surpasses the "Core Four Version" with issues 82 or 83!
You'll HAVE to "wake me" because, as the last issue worth spending my money on was # 41, (A:) I won't know about it (B:) I'll STILL be asleep from having read the boring translation job done with "My First Millions"!
Carl Barks didn't write "Fresh and Modern"... He wrote WELL!
Of course, we all know that DuckTales is the main reason why enough Americans are interested enough in Uncle Scrooge to keep his book going on a monthly basis.
Not sure if that's actually true; the DuckTales book itself appears to be struggling, having gone on hiatus for a few months and now having had to rebrand itself.
Of course, we all know that DuckTales is the main reason why enough Americans are interested enough in Uncle Scrooge to keep his book going on a monthly basis.
Not sure if that's actually true; the DuckTales book itself appears to be struggling, having gone on hiatus for a few months and now having had to rebrand itself.
I'm talking about the legacy that the original 1987 DuckTales TV series has among American audiences. Obviously the new TV series also contributes to that popularity, but the pattern has been very clear with earlier Disney comics publishers such as Gemstone and Gladstone II: the Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse books tend to get cancelled after a while, whereas WDC and (in particular) Uncle Scrooge are the titles that sell well enough to continue.
Not sure if that's actually true; the DuckTales book itself appears to be struggling, having gone on hiatus for a few months and now having had to rebrand itself.
I'm talking about the legacy that the original 1987 DuckTales TV series has among American audiences. Obviously the new TV series also contributes to that popularity, but the pattern has been very clear with earlier Disney comics publishers such as Gemstone and Gladstone II: the Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse books tend to get cancelled after a while, whereas WDC and (in particular) Uncle Scrooge are the titles that sell well enough to continue.
While I enjoy watching it (mostly), the new DuckTales TV series is a mess, and seems to be devolving into fan pandering by supposedly reintroducing all of the Disney Afternoon characters in the promo poster. But that is being discussed in another post in another section, so I'll stop there. In terms of legacy, it is somewhat telling that many DuckTales items at places like Hot Topic and Box Lunch (and other trendy mall stores with two word names) do seem to use the 1987 designs over the reboot, though. Uncle Scrooge and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories do seem to be the legacy titles that keep going the longest (even after dropping "Walt" from the title), don't they?