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Quote from user: Thomps2525The artists are John Green, who also draws Phineas & Ferb, and Paul Rudish, who also draws the Powerpuff Girls comics which are in a style similar to the "new Mickey."
So these are comics with original art, and not just stills reformatted as comic panels?

Quote from user: Thomps2525Those digital comic stories are adaptations and contain original art.
Um... huh? Do you have any examples of that "original art"? I researched this Mickey Mouse comic a bit when it was launched in 2013, and all the page samples I could see online were clearly just reformatted stills from the films. BADLY reformatted, I should add... they looked terrible. You can find a bunch of scanned pages on the Disney Wikia: http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_(2013_comic_book) All of them are obviously using film stills, resulting in very awkward-looking drawings and pacing. The only thing they've done is add some text parts and chop the pictures into panels. The worst kind of comic, if you ask me.

But why? There are the classic characters' designs, yet. Do we need so much a plausible story with Disney characters in that design? Those Mickey, Donald and pals version are silly.

You are correct...but you already knew that. I was wrong. I do think the comic adaptations, even though they use film stills, flow smoothly, considering that much of the action of the cartoons had to be eliminated. Anyone who sees the comics prior to seeing the cartoons would likely have a different opinion than someone who sees the cartoons first and then sees the comics. When I can view No Service and be able to pause it and re-play certain sections, I can see the flaws in the computer animation. In the opening scene of Mickey and Donald walking forward, the sudden appearance of the palm tree on the left and the sudden appearance of the buildings on the right are disturbing to me. The foreground does not blend into the background the way it would have if the cartoon had been filmed using the multi-plane camera with several "layers" of art. Compare it with the 1937 animated short The Old Mill. Of course television animation has a much smaller budget than feature animation.
On a related subject, does anyone know why the Disney Channel has shortened so many of the classic cartoons of the 1930s-40s-50s for airing on the "Have A Laugh" segments? Originally between six and seven minutes in length, each cartoon has been cut to three minutes. For example, the 1948 Mickey & The Seal cartoon ended with a scene of several seals frolicking in Mickey's bathtub but the edited version being shown on the Disney Channel eliminates that scene, along with several others, and ends with just one seal---the one who had hidden in Mickey's basket---in the water-filled shower stall. Does Disney think that today's generation of kids can't sit still long enough to enjoy the entire seven-minute cartoon?

Ah yes, those videos were known as "ReMicks." Get it? "Micks"? I didn't like them but I give Disney credit for doing something creative and different. Here is the ReMicks that uses the 2009 David Guetta/Kelly Rowland hit When Love Takes Over. Don't stare
at the backgrounds for too long---you might wind up hypnotized:

http://video.disney.com/watch/when-love-takes-over-re-micks-4e699702b2cafdc7349b920d

I wonder how many Disney characters have appeared in comics in Italy, Denmark, Brazil and other countries but never in the United States. I would love to see an English-language printing of that Italian story. I had never heard of Melissa Papera, nor had I heard of Dickie Duck, the granddaughter of Goldie O'Gilt. So Melissa is "Papera" and I know Donald is called"Paperino" in Italy but doesn't the word "papera" refer to a goose, not a duck? The word for duck is "anatra."
Not to get way off topic again.....well, okay, this will be getting off-topic again.....but why is it that so many cartoon characters and comic-book characters have a name that includes their species? Such names do not show much creativity. We have Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Gus Goose, Gladstone Gander, Clarabelle Cow, Bucky Bug, Foulfellow Fox, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Yogi Bear, Woody Woodpecker, Wally Walrus, Benny Burro, Magilla Gorilla, Top Cat, Tweety Bird, Touché Turtle, Woodsy Owl, Pogo Possum and many others.....and a road runner named Road Runner.

Many years ago I heard a radio announcer---I don't remember who---say that Donald Duck's name is wrong; it should be Donald Drake. Yes, a male duck is a drake.....but a male duck is also a duck. The word can refer to the species as well as to the male of the species. By the way, "duck" comes from the Old English word d?ce, which means "diver." Donald Duck, of course, is an anthropomorphic character. When he swims, he emulates the arm and leg motions of a human and never swims the way a real duck swims. Sitting in the water and paddling with his feet would look really strange!

Question: how likely is for IDW to publish PKNA?