Duck Comics Revue

This week we're going to stare into the abyss. "Don't you do that quite a lot?" you ask. And my unambiguous answer is: no....

 I have to get my biggest--and, really, only serious--critique of this story out of the way first, which is man, that title.  Totally generi...

This might be the first story I've written about with an imperative title.  Well...probably.  You could also read that title in the same...

Happy New Year! Let's hope 2026 is less horrible! I feel like that's probably gonna require rolling a natural twenty, but it's w...

Hello, all.  Just a quick hit here.  I didn't think I was going to be doing anything else for Christmas, but then, idly flipping through...

 Merry Christmas.  This year I got you nine Western stories.  Hope you like 'em.

Hello all.  Yeah, yeah, but as I noted in comments to the last entry, I DO have something big-ish and dumb-ish coming for the holidays, or s...

 Look, I'd LIKE to start with an intro, but there just ISN'T TIME! Gotta get going NOW NOW NOW! I mean, "He's a lonely old ...

 You know, in spite of the grim unavoidability (I could've said "inevitability; it's denotatively the same thing, but somehow i...

 I swear, I'm going to try to have something about a Barks classic soon, but I need an easy layup, and for that, we have this story , re...

 Yes, I know it looks as if I've abandoned this blog. I know there's normally a lull after Christmas, but this seems excessive. Well...

 Okay, okay, Achille, I yield.  It's time to make some Christmas dreams come true.  Or something. You know, the reason I was so reluctan...

This blog is for Disney comics, but we may also use it to celebrate the accomplishments of its readers, yeah? It's what Christmas is all...

 Hey!  Let's get some Christmas going 'round here, shall we?  This year...well, I'm not quite sure.  If you suggest something to...

 Look, I know you wanted something for Halloween, but all I have is this half-started entry I'd had sitting around for a while.  Gasp at...

 Gotta be honest: I'm not a big fan of that punctuation system where the question mark isn't at the end.  But it's what we'v...

Ha!  Bet you didn't expect to see me talking about THIS, did you?  Good lord it would be weird if you did.  Well, what happened is that...

Another entry so quickly?  Well, this is an emergency, obviously.  Indeed...what if?  I'm aware that that's a long-time Marvel conce...

 Well, okay, as long as I'm here, I might as well retreat to my usual remit: weird, bad-ish old Western stories.  Hey, it's SUMMER F...

Should I say something about this "Infinity Dime" thing?  I probably should, shouldn't I?  I mean, if I'm pretending that ...

It sounds unbelievable when I say it like this, but it's true: in the history of this blog, I have written about a grand total of one  B...

Here's a story that I found whilst rummaging around looking for something good to write about!  It was published as part of IDW's mu...

Ah yes, the holiday season!  And if you thought I wasn't going to have some Christmas gifts, then you, sir or madame, are a first-class ...

 Is this appropriate for Halloween?  Well...Venice is commonly associated with Carnival, and with disguise more generally.  There are lots o...

 And now, the grand finale of the DCRCIJS!  Well, you can judge for yourself how "grand" it is.  But it's DEFINITELY the final...

 "The Gem Jam," eh?  As soon as I saw that title, my Fallberg detector started going like crazy.  What, you've never heard of ...

You know, the openings of these stories often have these glimpses of a kind of utopian blissfulness that evaporates like the morning mist wh...

 Hope ya like Tony Strobl, or at least tolerate him, 'cause he's gonna be bringing you the art for all subsequent stories in the DCR...

 Here's a "fun" fact: this story has been reprinted twice in the US, more than any of the others we're covering.  Is that ...

Our first story, from the first Beach Party in 1954, is the only one that I actually read as a child: it was the only Disney Giant that was ...