Duck Comics Revue

 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 ...

Seriously, can it? 'Cause if not, I'll call this whole thing off; the last thing I want is to be responsible for your untimely demis...

 Hey, if you want, you can listen to me'n'Mark blathering about "The Twenty-Four Carat Moon."  To commemorate this occasi...

 Hey, whaddaya know?  I was on a podcast!  Two, actually, with more to come.  It's Mark Severino's Barks Remarks , and also his spin...

 I think it makes sense to talk about these two stories--Barks' second and third Gyro four-pagers--in tandem.  Actually, it might've...

 You definitely shouldn't get used to me churning out blog entires at this pace (who knows, maybe there'll be a six-month gap betwee...

I don't know why I'm so into these old non-Barks Western stories!  Am I like an aging libertine whose palate is so jaded that he has...

 So here we have another Barks script given life by others.  There's the usual rigamarole with the art: the story was originally drawn b...

 Right!  This isn't a Christmas story--no references to the holiday in the text or art; all it is is a winter story--but it did appear i...

 And now, we come to...Chip 'n' Dale?  What the HECK?!? Hey, great things come in humble, unassuming packages.  Yes, that is some so...

Sitting in the Tallinn airport, waiting to go home for Christmas...let's have a little fun, shall we?  Do some low-effort blogging.  Fee...