Darkwing Duck: Dangerous Discussion

Well, hey, since we've been talking about it the past couple of days, let's have a thread about the Darkwing Duck comics in general - The Boom Studios series, the brief Joe Books continuation, what we liked, what we didn't like, what we wish could've been, etc.

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Bumping with the recent storytime.

Okay user, break it down for me. The 2010 comic returned....... for how many volumes? For how long? When did it officially end 4ever? I have not been keeping tracks since I bought the omnibus.

Eight issues. That was literally it.

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So apparently, according to an user in a previous thread, people didn't like Quackerjack's "toyicide" because it was out of character. I don't know, I thought it was made sense. He clearly wasn't the type to flourish in an office job and after dealing with Quackwerks and Negaduck's shit and getting beaten by Darkwing AGAIN he just kinda... blue screened.

Besides, does Quackerjack even have much of a character to be out of? He's the only member of the Fearsome Five to not have a backstory or origin of some kind. He's just "the goofy guy."

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Good enough for me.

Were the joe books run any good? I managed to get only one book from that run. My LCS did a "who the fuck is joe books? and by the time the first one came in they had vanished.

>Were the joe books run any good?
I mean, it was almost exactly the same as the Boom comics, so... yes?

>it was almost exactly the same as the Boom comics
After they were rewritten in the omnibus, though. And also after dropping the last arc from the storyline.

Well that's good enough I guess.

They seemed fine for the little we got. I just wish they hadn't gotten cold feet over Gargoyles and squeezed in a few issues of it instead of trying to "test it" first with a retelling of the pilot that didn't come out anyway.

He did have a backstory, just not one to the extent of the others.

>had a toy company
>the rise of video games and Whiffle Boy in particular put him out of business
>went crazy

Megavolt's backstory seemed to be the most tragic, desu.

Found this in a Ducktales threads, and I gotta ask the same thing.
Why is Splatter Phoenix so based?

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The lawsuits from his questionably-safe products didn't help, either.

Fair enough. But that doesn't seem to show that committing toyicide is out of character. If anything, it helps it. He just says "fuck it" and turns himself into the one thing he loves and knows how to do.

What people apparently didn't like is that he did it for a girl he loved. And instead of standing by his decision, Aaron caved to the feedback and retconned it, with the implication that Quackerjack was going to be a total monster in his next scheme.

That's lame. Plenty of villains either become attracted to ladies and want them for their own, or loving a woman is outright the cause of their villainous origin. This was a really interesting character study on a villain the show didn't do much with beyond "PLAYTIME!" and talking bananas. It's a shame it was undone (or at least going to be) because fans were all "Ew, girls."

Not a bad correction.

This is why I'm not that broken up the comic got canned, at least under his watch. I'm thankful he touched up a lot of the robotic dialogue from the original comics and made it more faithful to the original DW, but he also seems to have a hateboner for that story in particular. Didn't he screw up a really good line people liked in the omnibus?

So, I keep hearing this sucked and that even Boom/Disney didn't like it. Can anyone tell me why, exactly? Due to issues (lol) with my local comic store I was only ever able to read the first issue, which seemed fine to me.

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From what I've heard, the art got really sloppy (to the point of copy pasting the same character pose multiple times), Ian Brill's dialogue getting increasingly verbose and out-of-character, and Boom didn't have permission to use some characters, but released it anyway, which pissed off Disney.

>Didn't he screw up a really good line people liked in the omnibus?
There was the "chains and leather pants" line in one of the first couple issues I remember people complaining about (that it was changed, that is).

This is the crossover we deserve. And probably the one we need right now.

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That was great.

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I like that artist

Have to re-read it than, did the art got sloppy?
I remember that there were some issues, but cant really come up with an overall sloppyness in later issues.

This one too.

The Joe run deserves some credit for doing one-off issues instead of FOUR PART EPICS TO FILL A TRADE all the time,

Mostly in background shots and when the cameo characters are stomping the slime.

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Imagine pissing of Disney just so you can add some unimportant characters in the background of a panel. They don't have any story significance so what's the point?

I think Disney was mad because Boom was specifically told to stop making Darkwing comics and they did it anyway. The characters weren't the main reason.