DUCKTALES VOLUME 1, ISSUE #1
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: Brandon Montclare
ART: Tomasso Ronda
COLOR: Tomasso Ronda
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. (November 2024)
All Ages
Based on “Uncle Scrooge” by Carl Barks
“Four Corners of Your World” Part One: “The More Things Change...”
“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 colored by Tomasso Ronda; and lettered by Fabio Amelia.
DuckTales Volume 1 #1 (“The More Things Change...”) opens in “The Money Bin,” the large storage building where Scrooge McDuck keeps his three cubic acres of cash. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are engaged in the drudge work that is counting their Uncle Scrooge's money when suddenly old McDuck himself suddenly appears while engaging in his favorite hobby – diving and swimming in his cash. This excites the nephews, but they want more.
Suddenly, they want to hear stories about the old days when Scrooge was building his fortune. The boys imagine faraway lands and legendary places. But what if they knew what their uncle knows? The greatest mysteries may be right there in their hometown of Duckburg.
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 #1 is the latest.
This first issue sports nice art and colors by Tomaso Ronda, and Ronda's graphical and illustrative style would be a perfect fit in any one of the classic Disney comic books published in the U.S. over the last four decades. Even Fabio Amelia's lettering feels like Disney comics.
However, writer Brandon Montclare's story for this debut issue feels like a waiting game, as if Montclare simply wants to establish this central conceit. The real adventure is like the adventure stories the nephews want so badly: it's coming, but not just yet. The end of this first issue teases some interesting characters and intriguing possible future story lines. In the meantime, it seems that we have to wait a little longer. However, that means this series does not start off with a blast, which is not quite the “DuckTales” way.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Disney comic books and 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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