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Quote from user: steetQuote from user: ManduckI'm starting to wonder if Spector has actually seen ANY episode of the series
Maybe he didn't...One year ago, I posted a message on Spector's blog, if he had any plans on including references to DA shows in Epic Mickey, and he replied that he had never watched TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck.
If you're referring to http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/e3-2010-or-two-rooms-eight-walls-and-the-coolest-thing-ever-part-5/ , Spector merely stated he had never watched TaleSpin. He didn't say one word about Darkwing Duck.

Quote from user: steetIf he had watched the Disney Afternoon, he WOULD have! I honestly don't know too many people that watched Ducktales but not the other shows.
Perhaps he didn't watch the Disney Afternoon, then?

DuckTales debuted in 1987 and pretty much ended in 1989, with the movie and the last eight episodes premiering in 1990. The Disney Afternoon didn't show up on TV screens until September 1990. I can easily see why a Barks fan like Spector might have seen DuckTales when it first premiered... but not have bothered to watch TaleSpin a few years later.

Well I for one enjoyed the first issue; The Rockerduck, Fethry and Daisy appearances (among others) show that Spector has knowledge of the duck universe beyond the ducktales tv show, which is a plus in my book. Btw, these appearances for Fethry and and Daisy weren't out of character for them, since they work for Scrooge's newspaper in plenty of comics (don't know if those are of italian origin).
I remember him stating that he "wanted the disney ducks", so this is just Spectors way of consolidating the duck universe while doing it under the more known brand of ducktales. I won't be angry if some things aren't in continuity with the ducktales tv show. Perhaps a bit of false advertising, but the story is good enough to stand on its own.

Quote from user: MatildaOK, since y'all are discussing DuckTales knowledgeably, I'm going to repeat a question I posted earlier and didn't get an answer for. In U$ 399, "The Arcadian Urn," a DuckTales story, Webby has a "Littlest Chickadee Field Guide" which clearly functions in a way equivalent to the Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook (has arcane information, translates ancient languages, etc.). Here's my question: in the DuckTales episodes or other DuckTales comics stories, is it established that Webby (1) is a Chickadee and (2) has such a guidebook? I never watched DuckTales on TV (only saw the movie), and I'm interested in this aspect of gender parity, since it's always bothered me that only males will ever have access to the JW Guidebook (in the present day--not counting Cleopatra!).
In at least one of the TV episodes ("Merit-Time Adventure") Webby is seen to be a Junior Woodchuck. I don't know whether she was ever a Chickadee in the TV series.

Yes, I agree with Robb, putting Webby in the Junior Woodchucks is indeed weird. True, in the years between Barks and Rosa people making the American comics seem often to have forgotten that the Duckburg Girl Scouts are called (Littlest) Chickadees. But I don't believe anyone in American comics ever put girls in the Woodchucks (aside from John Carey's very sexist "Woodchuck for a Day", W JW 43-02, wherein April disguises herself as a Woodchuck [though you'd think her high heels would give her away!]). In several stories in HDL JW and in Daisy & Donald from the late 1970's and 1980's, the Duckburg Girl Scouts are indeed called Chickadees. In other issues of HDL JW, AM&J are in Scouting organizations called "Twitter-birds" ("The Great Twitter-bird Rescue" by Bob Gregory, W JW 47-03) and "Nature's Princesses" ("Rescue Squad", W JW 36-03 --despite the obnoxious organizational name, this may be the least sexist of the stories, which, believe me, is not saying much! Didn't it occur to anyone that girls might be reading these stories?). In Ludwig Von Drake 1, AM&J are in a Scouting group with the decent name of "Red Robins" ("Super Sales Girls", W LVD 1-06). My personal favorite of the names for Duckburg girls' scouting groups, though, is the early Barks' "Junior Bonfire Girls"! (in "Kite Weather," W WDC 42-02) (For those of you in other countries: there was another Girl Scouts-like organization in the USA called Camp Fire Girls; in 1975 it was expanded to include boys [sorry, Robb! :-) ], and is now called Camp Fire USA.)
So I'm glad that Paul Halas & Tom Anderson in "The Arcadian Urn" made Webby a Chickadee, not a Woodchuck...and unless any of you knows otherwise, I'll assume that they invented the "Chickadee Field Guide."
Though, come to think of it....it's possible that Halas & Anderson did make Webby a Woodchuck (or whatever the Danish version of that is), and have her using a JW Guidebook, and it was the translators who turned her into a Chickadee and thus had to invent a "Chickadee Field Guide". Anyone know whether that was the case?

Thanks for the info, David! So I will mentally credit Jonathan with the creation of the Chickadee Field Guide (for which I thank him!). Perhaps he is also the first person to officially enroll Webby in the Chickadees?
I do think that giving Webby a Chickadee Field Guide which seems equivalent to the JW Guidebook fits with the rest of the story, where Webby repeatedly saves the day. A nice change from the sexist JW dreck c. 1980 referenced above.
Though I'm usually loyal to Rosa's version of the ducks' world, the fact that such a Chickadee Field Guide could not exist in Rosa's Duckburg doesn't bother me, because the DuckTales universe is clearly a parallel universe, with DuckTales comics existing in Rosa's Duckburg as $crooge-inspired fiction (see "The Beagle Boys vs. the Money Bin"--did that joke make it into translations of this story?).
And I do wonder what Paul Halas had in mind....

I'd guess that "set in the same universe as Darkwing Duck" is a marketing ploy. I smell a crossover. Although technically, they already did that a bit in the fourth issue of Darkwing, when Scrooge showed up and made Launchpad CEO of Quackworks.

Quote from user: kimba_1962However Spector decides to amalgamate the DARKWING and DUCKTALES universes in future issues, he's going to have to provide a LOT more context than he did in that one villain-packed panel. As enjoyable as it was to see Moliarity, Arpin, Azure Blue, etc. together, I have to see some EXPLANATION for the "unholy alliance" before I can buy it.
Again, this was *not* a panel and nothing done by Warren Spector. It is the C (originally B) cover done by Darkwing Duck artist James Silvani. It has nothing to do with the story itself. James just loves to draw character cameos.

Edit: Ooops, nevermind, my fault. See next posting.