Two posts in one week, what is this 2010?

 

I read another comic published this decade!

Dynamite's Duck Tales #1

It was....okay.

I was not familiar with any of the creative team prior to buying this comic. The writer, Brandon Montclare, has some Marvel credits under his belt, while the artist has worked on the Geronimo Stilton comics.

The art is appealing and easy to look at.  The character designs kind of split the difference between Duck Tales 1987 and 2017 (for instance the nephews have big heads and giant eyes), but the setting is definitely Duckburg Classic.

The story is just meh, I assume it is intended to serve as an introduction to the concept for little kids.  The best thing about it is that Scrooge tells the kids stories of past adventures, in the form of two-page gag strips.

It's a cute gimmick, like the fake movie trailers in Grindhouse.

If you have little kids at home who are interested in comics, or if you are looking for something nostalgic that you don't need to think about, this is a perfectly acceptable comic book.  It's not the worst Duck Tales comic, that's for sure.

Comic Shop News

 

I went to the comic shop today.

I went into these comics completely cold; I didn't even know these titles were coming out until I got to the shop.

  I had a hard time deciding on which covers to get:

(there are a lot of variant covers these days).

None of these comics were quite up my alley, but they were all competently made and enjoyable to read.  Of the three the best was probably Maleficent, a done-in-one of the sorceress's chance encounter with a dim-witted village boy. I assume their story will continue in issue two but I don't care enough to find out. The anime-inspired art by Soo Lee is the real draw here.

Nightmare Before Christmas also had great art but the story was D-U-M- stupid.  Baby Jack Skellington and Baby Oogie Boogie are the best of friends, you see, but they are both about to compete in a contest to see who will become the next Pumpkin King and zzzzzzzzzZZZZZ.  I've read probably every Nightmare Before Christmas comic ever made, and they all suck. 

Gargoyles was good if you are a fan of the TV show- a flashback tale to the good old days when Men and Goyles battled with swords and honor.  If you've never watched the show I doubt this is a good jumping-on point to the franchise.  It's not Watchmen or anything, but it was fine.  Don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound like a Negative Nancy here, it was a pleasant surprise to go to the shop and have actual new comics to buy even if none of them really knocked me out.  Between these and Fantagraphics Disney Afternoon omnibuses it's a good time to be a 90s kid/ Disney Adult.