Comics Review: Disney's "DUCKTALES #2" - Loose Change is Coming

DUCKTALES VOLUME 1, ISSUE #2

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

STORY: Brandon Montclare

ART: Tomasso Ronda

COLORS: Agnese Eterno

LETTERS: Fabio Amelia

EDITOR: Nate Cosby

COVER: Ivan Bigarella

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Francesco Tomaselli; Carlo Lauro; Alan Quah; Ivan Bigarella; Tomasso Ronda

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (December 2024)

All Ages

Based on “Uncle Scrooge” by Carl Barks

“Four Corners of Your World” Part Two: “The Phantom of the Scrooge-A-Rama-Dome!”

“DuckTales” was an animated television series that ran from 1987 to 1990.  Produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, DuckTales was syndicated to American local television stations and ran for 100 episodes.  The series also yielded a theatrical spin-off movie, DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990).  In 2017, a second “DuckTales” series ran for 69 episodes over three seasons (2017-2021).

DuckTales was inspired by and based upon the Uncle Scrooge comics book and other comic books set in the world of Donald Duck that Carl Barks, legendary comic book writer-artist, created mainly from the early 1940s and into the 1960s.  The TV show followed the adventures of Donald Duck's uncle, Scrooge McDuck; his three grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie (who were also Donald's nephews), and a close group of friends.

There were several DuckTales-related comics publications and comic books published on and off over a period from 1988 to 2020.  Dynamite Entertainment brings DuckTales back to comic books with DuckTales Volume 1.  It is written by Brandon Montclare; drawn and by Tomasso Ronda; colored by Agnese Eterno; and lettered by Fabio Amelia.

DuckTales Volume 1 #2 (“The Phantom of the Scrooge-A-Rama-Dome!”) opens in Scrooge's home, “McDuck Manor,” which sits right at the center of Duckburg.  Scrooge is going to take Huey, Dewey, and Louie on a sightseeing tour through Duckburg, and the sites are the places that exist because of him.  One of them is Duckburg's premiere movie house, “the Scrooge-A-Rama Dome,” which he owns.

Scrooge built the Scrooge-A-Rama Dome to be to most palatial of motion picture palaces – inspired by both the grandeur of the Colosseum in Rome and the chance to charge top-dollar admission fees.  And it just so happens that Scrooge and the nephews have arrived during the “Monthly Monster Movie Marathon.”  However, the sight of loose change sends Scrooge spiraling back to one of his craziest duels with his old adversary, Magica de Spell.  Meanwhile, what is the mystery behind the theater's two employees, Mr. Frank and Beans?

THE LOWDOWN:  Since July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department has been providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles.  DuckTales Volume 1, Issue #2 is the latest.

I thought the first issue of the new DuckTales comic book series was more an introductory chapter than a first chapter of a serial.  I was right because writer Brandon Montclare was establishing with the first issue that this was going to be a comic book about stories, in particular the stories that Scrooge has to tell.  Truthfully, there is a lot of mystery and adventure in Scrooge's hometown of Duckburg, and his adventures outside the burg may sometimes tie into events within the burg.

With this second issue, Montclare offers a delightful story of the stage and the screen and of the kooky people on stage and behind the scenes.  With that Montclare offers a most delightful tale that Uncle Scrooge want to tell.

Artist Tomasso Ronda presents beautiful art and engaging storytelling.  His art looks as if it has stepped off the Disney animation reel and it makes the story pop with suspense and fun.  Colorist Agnese Eterno captures the colorful magic of the wonderful storytelling worlds of Disney.  Together Ronda and Eterno bring the spark of imagination that is Disney comics to this story.  It does not read like a licensed comic book; it reads like the kind of fun comic book I would have loved as a kid.  Even Fabio Amelia's lettering fits right in and feels like Disney comics

DuckTales #2 is an impressive second issue.  It suggests that this series has staying power, and I hope that you, dear readers, help it stay around.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Disney comic books and of DuckTales will want to try DuckTales Volume 1.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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